Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect and walk into freedom.
Rick WarrenIn deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
Rick WarrenWar is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
Rick WarrenThere's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now clearly, there are some either/or's - I either trust Christ or I don't. I'm either pregnant or I'm not. But a lot of thinking in Scripture, when it comes to theology is, in my opinion, conjunctive thinking. It's both/and. I believe that and I believe that.
Rick Warren