Craig Gross > Quotes

“More than ever, we have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility. We excel at making a living but often fail at making a life. We celebrate our prosperity but yearn for a purpose. We cherish our freedoms but long for connection. In an age of plenty, we feel spiritual hunger.”
― Craig Gross, Pure Eyes: A Man's Guide to Sexual Integrity

“Psalm 119:9–12: “How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Praise be to you, O Lord; teach me your decrees.”
― Craig Gross, Pure Eyes: A Man's Guide to Sexual Integrity

“Accountability is not easy, and it doesn’t come naturally. But in the long run it’s incredibly necessary, and when you do it right, it’s nothing but good.”
― Craig Gross, Open: What Happens When You Get Real, Get Honest, and Get Accountable

“This is “binary thinking.” You are either making the right choices you have set yourself up to make or you are not. Period.”
― Craig Gross, Pure Eyes: A Man's Guide to Sexual Integrity

“Accountability requires the internal strength of honesty. We have to be strong enough to hear the honest questions and answer them honestly. We have to be strong enough to ask honest questions and hear honest answers, reacting appropriately and with grace and respect. Without honesty, there is no accountability, pure and simple.”
― Craig Gross, Open: What Happens When You Get Real, Get Honest, and Get Accountable

“No form of submission to God could be simpler or clearer than just showing up at church on Sunday.”
― Craig Gross, Pure Eyes: A Man's Guide to Sexual Integrity

“But ignoring the tough stuff doesn’t make it go away. It just allows it to fester. Maybe you need to start dealing with the scary stuff, and maybe you need the help of a professional counselor to do that. Maybe you have pain from your childhood that you’ve buried or locked away, something you need to deal with. Please do. Don’t let that stuff control you any longer.”
― Craig Gross, Open: What Happens When You Get Real, Get Honest, and Get Accountable

“That’s why accountability is so very necessary, for each of our lives. Especially in today’s culture where we’re constantly being told about the smallest foibles of those around us. There are cameras everywhere, capturing everything, and it isn’t hard to look at this world negatively, just waiting for people to trip up. When we get accountable, we lessen that point of view in our own minds, and tripping up seems less inevitable. We walk with our heads held high, knowing that we can stroll freely and unashamed because we have accountability right beside us, helping us, supporting us, keeping us honest and secure.”
― Craig Gross, Open: What Happens When You Get Real, Get Honest, and Get Accountable

“accountability partner:”
― Craig Gross, Pure Eyes: A Man's Guide to Sexual Integrity