Dr. Rick Warren Quotes

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.

When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.