Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “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

452. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

455. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

459. “When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian’s life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.”

— Rick Warren

460. “In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to figure out that nothing matters more.”

— 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. “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

463. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

466. “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

467. “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

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

— Rick Warren

469. “God doesn’t intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

471. “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

472. “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

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

— Rick Warren

474. “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

475. “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

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

— Rick Warren

477. “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

478. “Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

481. “There’s not a person on earth that God doesn’t love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.”

— Rick Warren

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

— 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. “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

485. “The Bible says that governments can do things that I’m not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He’s put the law in the government’s hands.”

— Rick Warren

486. “Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.”

— Rick Warren

487. “When you win, don’t swagger. When you lose, don’t sulk.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

489. “I am opposed to the redefinition of marriage.”

— Rick Warren

490. “I don’t personally have enough faith to be an atheist.”

— Rick Warren

491. “Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.”

— Rick Warren

492. “When God gives, he holds nothing back.”

— Rick Warren

493. “Who are you going to live for – yourself or God?”

— Rick Warren

494. “Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.”

— Rick Warren

495. “War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.”

— Rick Warren

496. “I’ve always said the shoes must never tell the foot how big to be.”

— Rick Warren

497. “We’re a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.”

— Rick Warren

498. “I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.”

— Rick Warren

499. “America was founded by religious people, devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion. It’s what made America different from every other country.”

— Rick Warren

500. “People respond to vision, not need.”

— Rick Warren