Rick Warren Quotes

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

The Bible isn't meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer of the Word!

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.

We receive from God, then we give to others.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

The greatest things in life are not things.

Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

The number one problem in our society today is short-term thinking.

If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?

Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus.

Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him....You are the only Christian some people will ever know.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

You need to doubt your doubts & believe your beliefs.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.

There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision.

There's much you can't change, but there's something important you can change: you.

Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody. I put him above Einstein and everybody else.

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.