All Time Famous Louie Giglio Quotes

Louie Giglio is an American pastor, author, and speaker, born on June 30, 1958. He is the founder of Passion City Church in Atlanta and the Passion Movement, a global initiative uniting young people in worship and justice. Giglio is widely recognized for his dynamic preaching style and has authored several bestselling books, including “The Air I Breathe” and “Goliath Must Fall.” He gained prominence for his involvement in the Passion Conferences, attracting thousands of young adults. Giglio is also known for his advocacy on social justice issues and has contributed significantly to the fight against human trafficking through initiatives like the END IT Movement. His impactful ministry and inspirational teachings have made him a respected figure in the Christian community.

Louie Giglio Quotes

1. “God’s plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.”
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2. “Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.”
— Louie Giglio

3. “To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.”
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4. “Whenever you say ‘yes’ to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your ‘yes’ is worth the less.”
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5. “God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’”
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6. “You never lose by giving it all to Jesus.”
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7. “Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.”
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8. “God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.”
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9. “Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.”
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10. “Don’t overcomplicate God’s will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.”
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11. “Worship is when we give God His breath back.”
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12. “Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.”
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13. “Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.”
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14. “God is not a taker. God is a giver.”
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15. “It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.”
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16. “If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.”
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17. “You don’t have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step.”
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18. “God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.”
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19. “Sin doesn’t make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn’t make us better, the gospel makes us alive.”
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20. “Our scars are a witness to the world. They are a part of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.”
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21. “Nothing steals God’s glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear.”
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22. “When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.”
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23. “Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you’re not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.”
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24. “When we are foolish God intervenes.”
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25. “The wonderful living Word of God is more precious than anything else that we have.”
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26. “Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.”
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27. “Humility is not a character trait to develop, it’s the natural by-product of being with Jesus.”
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28. “Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough.”
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29. “Yet, Jesus is selfless in the way He gives His life away for you. So if your gaze is on Him, you will treat others as He is treating you.”
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30. “It’s a big world. Don’t get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.”
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31. “This is an amazing thought: a God who is indescribable.”
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32. “No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.”
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33. “Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.”
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34. “The Father doesn’t give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.”
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35. “The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem, and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.”
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36. “Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!”
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37. “If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.”
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38. “If our worship isn’t visible, comprehensive, and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty, and cheap.”
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39. “In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.”
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40. “God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn’t call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.”
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41. “There is a ripple effect to the gospel that’s inevitable. There’s a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn’t lead us to only sit and contemplate what happened to us. It leads us to proclaim what’s happened to us – and what can happen to anybody and everybody on the planet.”
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42. “When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people.”
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43. “Accept the fact that you’re never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.”
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44. “Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.”
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45. “It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.”
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46. “Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn’t a part of their lives because they aren’t “religious.” But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.”
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47. “God is huge! He is ginormous! He is greater than every thought we have ever had of Him.”
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48. “God’s purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.”
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49. “If you’re waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you’re always waiting on God, you’ll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.”
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50. “It doesn’t really matter how rich you are, we’re all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.”
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51. “It’s not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It’s the object of our worship Who is awesome.”
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52. “It’s not that we should declare the praises of God. It’s that we may.”
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53. “Who knows who’s waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God’s family?”
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54. “At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that’s the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.”
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55. “God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.”
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56. “The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it’s about going from dead to alive!”
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57. “Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.”
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58. “As an overflow of my life – the wake I leave behind with my little dash on earth – I want others to fall in love with Jesus and know of His great hope and purpose for their lives.”
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59. “The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.”
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60. “Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.”
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61. “Don’t dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God’s all-sufficiency.”
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62. “As long as I can remember, the compelling force behind my calling is a desire to know Jesus more and to make Him known. I believe I was created for a relationship with Jesus, so growing in my relationship with Him and worshiping Him with all my heart and life is preeminent.”
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63. “You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up…”
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64. “But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self – a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.”
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65. “Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.”
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66. “Everything thing we’re doing is coming out of the living Word of God.”
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67. “There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship.”
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68. “When you’re in the midst of a storm, it’s hard to remember that God is always good and glorious and that God’s plans will always prevail, even when yours don’t.”
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69. “Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus – to that degree, I can channel God’s life to others.”
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70. “If we live for people’s approval, we will die by their rejection.”
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71. “Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.”
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72. “This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.”
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73. “Sin doesn’t make you bad, it makes you dead.”
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74. “I’m dead in the water if I can’t see the all-sufficient glory of God.”
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75. “Christ didn’t die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!”
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76. “There’s no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.”
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77. “Jesus doesn’t just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.”
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78. “David is looking up into the immensity of God’s creation, yet he still knows he has a relationship with the One who made the sun and the moon and the stars and the heavens. He’s blown away by God’s indirect answer. All this, yet God still cares for us. All this, yet the God of the universe still knows our names. All this, yet God has chosen us. He’s made us his sons and daughters. He loves us. He cherishes us.”
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79. “God isn’t waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.”
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80. “It’s horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.”
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81. “If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.”
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82. “We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.”
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83. “As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it – but they already are! They want to see us get real.”
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84. “Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.”
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85. “Quit trying to do what I already know you can’t do and let Christ do what only He can through you.”
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86. “Victory over our hurts and pain is not found by delving deeper into our wounds, but by clinging to the wounds of Jesus.”
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87. “In spite of our foolishness and rebellious hearts, God has pursued us with relentless passion and patience, fully expressing to us His unfathomable love through the mercy and grace of the cross of His Son, Jesus Christ.”
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88. “While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.”
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89. “This is a powerful, powerful, powerful way to live. Sure, this mindset doesn’t preclude doing our best to right wrongs, seek justice, and find cures. But in the process of taking action, we must understand that God is in charge.”
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90. “God doesn’t call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.”
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91. “God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.”
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92. “If we truly want to change, then we need to understand our dependency on the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ. Our change is more about trusting and less about trying.”
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93. “Whether it’s an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don’t want to seek acclaim. You don’t want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God’s given you.”
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94. “The only thing that will help us move past the giant of rejection is to immerse ourselves in the acceptance of Christ.”
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95. “Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life.”
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96. “Worship starts with seeing something great and then reflecting it to the world. Let’s see God so we can reflect God.”
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97. “Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do.”
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98. “It is not God’s will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.”
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99. “Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It’s because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren’t DEAD!”
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100. “Nothing worth having comes without a cost. A.”
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