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

452. “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

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

— Rick Warren

454. “I absolutely believe that people should show respect to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of their beliefs, religious beliefs or any other kind of belief.”

— Rick Warren

455. “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

456. “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

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

— Rick Warren

458. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

461. “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

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

— Rick Warren

463. “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

464. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

467. “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

468. “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

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

— Rick Warren

470. “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

471. “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

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

— Rick Warren

473. “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

474. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

481. “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

482. “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

483. “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

484. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

487. “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

488. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

491. “Second, “What did you do with what I gave you?” What did you do with your life – all the gifts, talents, opportunities, energy, relationships, and resources God gave you? Did you spend them on yourself, or did you use them for the purposes God made you for?”

— Rick Warren

492. “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

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

— Rick Warren

494. “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

495. “You’ve got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what’s in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.”

— Rick Warren

496. “Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it is the substitutionary understanding that God – Jesus took our payment and you can’t understand.”

— Rick Warren

497. “Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.”

— Rick Warren

498. “The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.”

— Rick Warren

499. “What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You’re taking your character to heaven, not your career.”

— Rick Warren

500. “People are always more encouraged when we share how God’s grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.”

— Rick Warren