Steven Furtick is a pastor and author of the best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life. The Christmas 2012 edition was No.1 on Amazon’s list for a week, and over 40 million copies have been sold worldwide.
He had a vision that the world needed an authentic Christianity that would reach the masses with God’s love, leading to people becoming more like Jesus.
Today, Furtick is one of the most popular pastors in America and has written several best-selling books, including “The Life You’ve Always Wanted” and “The Rise.”
Furtick has become one of the most influential pastors in America through his sermons, books, and podcasts.
Here are 51 Steven Furtick Quotes That Will Inspire You For Success
1. “Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.” ― Steven Furtick
2. “Today’s excuses are tomorrow’s regrets dressed in disguise.” ― Steven Furtick
3. “When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.” ― Steven Furtick
4. “What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.” ― Steven Furtick
5. “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is that we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” ― Steven Furtick
6. “Many people never reach greater because they don’t leave good enough behind.” ― Steven Furtick
7. “Don’t you dare let the magnitude of your fears send you back to dry land.” ― Steven Furtick
8. “When you have a dream in your heart, but no earthly idea how to make it happen, keeping your faith intact is a full-time job.” ― Steven Furtick
9. “The goal of faith isn’t to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief.” ― Steven Furtick
10. “Love is not words, it’s actions, and love isn’t feelings, it’s a decision.” ― Steven Furtick
11. “Because fear often finds its power, not in our actual situation, but in what we tell ourselves about our situation.” ― Steven Furtick
12. “You can’t be afraid to stare into the pupils of the possibility of pain and see it for what it is.” ― Steven Furtick
13. “Perfectionism is the enemy of progress.” ― Steven Furtick
14. “The next time you lose your momentum in daily life as you’re chasing after God’s best for you, don’t give up and conclude that it’s over. The greater life hasn’t ended for you. It’s only out of sight under the waters of the ordinary. And God can resurface it, supernaturally, as many times as it takes. As many times as you’re willing.” ― Steven Furtick
15. “Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that.” ― Steven Furtick
16. “If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips.” ― Steven Furtick
17. “What do you do when your greatest accomplishments lead you straight down the path of an even greater fear?” ― Steven Furtick
18. “Today’s excuses are tomorrow’s regrets dressed in disguise.” ― Steven Furtick
19. “Lots of times, our main problem isn’t our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.” ― Steven Furtick
20. “The death of contentment is comparison.” ― Steven Furtick
21. “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” ― Steven Furtick
22. “When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.” ― Steven Furtick
23. “Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you’re not really praying. You’re just pontificating.” ― Steven Furtick
24. “God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.” ― Steven Furtick
25. “If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips”
26. “Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.” ― Steven Furtick
27. “The voice you believe will determine the future you experience.” ― Steven Furtick
28. “What are you forfeiting in your life—right now—because of the force of fear pushing against your faith? Because you’re listening to the wrong voice?” ― Steven Furtick
29. “Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear – it means we refuse to be overcome by it.” ― Steven Furtick
30. “Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.” ― Steven Furtick
31. “Did you know it’s possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion?” – Steven Furtick
32. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” ― Steven Furtick
33. “Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language.” ― Steven Furtick
34. “Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you’ll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He’ll make your box bigger.” ― Steven Furtick
35. “You can’t make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.” ― Steven Furtick
36. “The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!” ― Steven Furtick
37. “If the size of your vision for your life isn’t intimidating to you, there’s a good chance it’s insulting to God.” ― Steven Furtick
38. “You can’t fulfill your calling in your comfort zone!”
39. “Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.” ― Steven Furtick
40. “I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.” ― Steven Furtick
41. “Gratitude begins where our sense of entitlement ends.” ― Steven Furtick
42. “I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.” ― Steven Furtick
43. “The voice you believe will determine the future you experience”
44. “Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance.” ― Steven Furtick
45. “I dont believe God’s called me to survive the world but to change it for His glory.” ― Steven Furtick
46. “If your problem is too big for you, it’s just the right size for God.” ― Steven Furtick
47. “Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear – it means we refuse to be overcome by it.” ― Steven Furtick
48. “Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.” ― Steven Furtick
49. “The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.” ― Steven Furtick
50. “Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.” ― Steven Furtick
51. “Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.” ― Steven Furtick
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