Rick Warren Quotes

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.

Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

To me, heaven is a real place. I don't believe it's a state of being.

I think one day Madonna's going to say Jesus is Lord, one day Muhammad is going to say Jesus is Lord, Hitler will say Jesus is Lord.

I'm definitely not postmillennial. And I do not believe in bringing in the Kingdom by human means, in no sense of the matter.

The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read

The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

God is all powerful, He's in control.

Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.

That's one of those questions I'm asked more often than anything else. Will my dog go to heaven? And I say well, the lion will lay down with the lamb.

We are commanded to recognize His glory, honor His glory, declare His glory, praise His glory, reflect His glory, and live for His glory.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

We had one rule which was 'whatever you are feeling, that's okay'

I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

Our goal is to make God look good in the universe.

The church must always show compassion, always.

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

If your God doesn't look like Jesus, we don't worship the same God, sorry.

Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.

Instead of focusing on that unappeasable person, refocus on Jesus, who accepts you unconditionally.

God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.

If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it.

God knows what it's like to lose a son.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

Don't let your net worth determine your self worth.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

People respond to vision, not need.

Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.

There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.