Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Rick WarrenIf you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
Rick WarrenRead the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.
Rick WarrenThen Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.
Rick WarrenThere are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call is suspicion. When we doubt ourselves we call it inferiority. When we doubt God we call it unbelief. When we doubt what we hear on television we call it intelligence! When we doubt everything we call it cynicism or skepticism.
Rick Warren