Rick Warren Quotes

The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

Put Jesus Christ in the driver’s seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel.

You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct.

What common task could I start doing as if I were doing it directly for Jesus?

Love others as you love yourself.’1 Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That’s why we’re given a lifetime to learn it. Of course, God wants u...

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Most men lead lives of aimless distraction.

POINT TO PONDER: I’m as close to God as I choose to be.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the p...

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.

But God’s presence in your life has nothing to do with your feelings. Your emotions are susceptible to all kinds of influences, so they are often unreliable. Sometimes the worst advice you can get is...

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, an...

Throw yourself into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for Him is a waste of time or effort.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

Then 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...

The way you see your life shapes your life.

We are human beings, not human doings.

Surrendered people obey God’s word, even if it doesn’t make sense.