Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
Rick WarrenGod has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
Rick WarrenLaw is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Rick WarrenWorship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed in the service. More people are won to Christ by feeling God's presence than by all our apologetic arguments combined. Few people, if any, are converted to Christ on purely intellectual grounds. It is the sense of God's presence that melts the heart and explodes mental barriers.
Rick Warren