Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Growing marriages aren’t determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.”

— Rick Warren

452. “Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.”

— Rick Warren

453. “We bring God glory by loving other believers.”

— Rick Warren

454. “What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.”

— Rick Warren

455. “C. S. Lewis said, “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right then, have it your way.’ ” Tragically, many people will have to endure eternity without God because they chose to live without him here on earth.”

— Rick Warren

456. “Faith, not feelings, pleases God.”

— Rick Warren

457. “If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about;.”

— Rick Warren

458. “When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.”

— Rick Warren

459. “Living to create an earthly legacy is a shortsighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an eternal legacy. You weren’t put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.”

— Rick Warren

460. “Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! The Bible says, “The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me.”

— Rick Warren

461. “Many people are driven by the need for approval. They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or children or teachers or friends to control their lives. Many adults are still trying to earn the approval of unpleasable parents. Others are driven by peer pressure, always worried by what others might think. Unfortunately, those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”

— Rick Warren

462. “The Daniel Plan is designed to cut cravings, satisfy your appetite, and teach you to listen to your body.”

— Rick Warren

463. “Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing, only focusing on God’s Word instead of your problem. No other habit can do more to transform your life... than daily reflection on Scripture.”

— Rick Warren

464. “I’d rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.”

— Rick Warren

465. “Es posible dar sin amar, pero no se puede amar sin dar.”

— Rick Warren

466. “When you live in light of eternity, your values change. You use your time and money more wisely. You place a higher premium on relationships and character instead of fame or wealth or achievements or even fun. Your priorities are reordered. Keeping up with trends, fashions, and popular values just doesn’t matter as much anymore. Paul said, “I once thought all these things were so very important, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.”3.”

— Rick Warren

467. “I happen to know people who are followers of Christ in other religions.”

— Rick Warren

468. “The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there’s some things worth dying for.”

— Rick Warren

469. “Even a broken tree can bear fruit.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

471. “Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.”

— Rick Warren

472. “I don’t care whether you’re Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God.”

— Rick Warren

473. “The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.”

— Rick Warren

474. “America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn’t create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.”

— Rick Warren

475. “I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.”

— Rick Warren

476. “That’s the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.”

— Rick Warren

477. “Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.”

— Rick Warren

478. “As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God’s power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, “God, I can’t handle this!””

— Rick Warren

479. “Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from sex. It doesn’t come from salary. It comes from serving.”

— Rick Warren

480. “I’m not looking for peace on earth through a political solution. I’m a pastor. The Bible talks about three kinds of peace. There is peace with God. There’s the peace of God. And there’s peace with each other.”

— Rick Warren

481. “Lust is raw selfishness. It’s all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.”

— Rick Warren

482. “God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.”

— Rick Warren

483. “Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That’s nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.”

— Rick Warren

484. “You don’t bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.”

— Rick Warren

485. “Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there’s a short prayer before we eat.”

— Rick Warren

486. “Every temptation is an offer to doubt God’s love and wisdom.”

— Rick Warren

487. “Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.”

— Rick Warren

488. “I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.”

— Rick Warren

489. “I don’t think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.”

— Rick Warren

490. “God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can’t claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.”

— Rick Warren

491. “The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God.”

— Rick Warren

492. “When the Bible speaks of God’s love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.”

— Rick Warren

493. “Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.”

— Rick Warren

494. “There’s a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.”

— Rick Warren

495. “I don’t believe my interpretation’s inerrant. I don’t believe anybody else’s interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant. I believe in the plenary, verbal plenary inspiration of scripture, without a doubt.”

— Rick Warren

496. “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.”

— Rick Warren

497. “We are only fully alive when we’re helping others.”

— Rick Warren

498. “Law 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 Warren

499. “If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you’d have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.”

— Rick Warren

500. “Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.”

— Rick Warren