Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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

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

— Rick Warren

453. “There’s never going to be peace in the world until there’s peace in nations. There’s never going to be peace in nations till there’s peace in communities and families and in individual lives.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

457. “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

458. “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

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

— Rick Warren

460. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

463. “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”

— Rick Warren

464. “Without a clear purpose you have no foundation on which you base decisions, allocate your time, and use your resources. You will tend to make choices based on circumstances, pressures, and your mood at that moment. People who don’t know their purpose try to do too much – and that causes stress, fatigue, and conflict.”

— Rick Warren

465. “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

466. “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

467. “You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

470. “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

471. “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

472. “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

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

— Rick Warren

474. “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

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

— Rick Warren

476. “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

477. “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

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

— Rick Warren

479. “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

480. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

485. “God never does anything accidentally...”

— Rick Warren

486. “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

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

— Rick Warren

488. “If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.”

— Rick Warren

489. “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

490. “The key is really just saying my brain isn’t big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.”

— Rick Warren

491. “The church must always show compassion, always.”

— Rick Warren

492. “AIDS is the leprosy of the 21st Century. Where did Jesus hang out? With lepers. Jesus would love on people with AIDS.”

— Rick Warren

493. “I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don’t have the brain capacity.”

— Rick Warren

494. “Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.”

— Rick Warren

495. “I’d rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people’s approval.”

— Rick Warren

496. “A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.”

— Rick Warren

497. “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

498. “People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.”

— Rick Warren

499. “Knowing you’re a child of the creator of the universe changes everything.”

— Rick Warren

500. “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 God was once again available.”

— Rick Warren