Rick Warren Quotes

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God

Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

There 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.

If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.

Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.

God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

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

From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

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

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

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

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

Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

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

I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for 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!

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can't do it - because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel.

I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.

Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

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.

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.

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.

If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.

While you're waiting, God's working.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.