Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Rick Warren

52. “To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision.”

— Rick Warren

53. “Life minus love equals zero.”

— Rick Warren

54. “The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”

— Rick Warren

55. “Never confuse activity with productivity.”

— Rick Warren

56. “For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can’t hold any back.”

— Rick Warren

57. “When pressure builds up, don’t panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.”

— Rick Warren

58. “You are as close to God as you choose to be.”

— Rick Warren

59. “Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.”

— Rick Warren

60. “God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.”

— Rick Warren

61. “Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.”

— Rick Warren

62. “Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.”

— Rick Warren

63. “You can only make a difference by being different.”

— Rick Warren

64. “The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.”

— Rick Warren

65. “God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.”

— Rick Warren

66. “Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren’t rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.”

— Rick Warren

67. “If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.”

— Rick Warren

68. “You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.”

— Rick Warren

69. “Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.”

— Rick Warren

70. “The greatest things in life are not things.”

— Rick Warren

71. “If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.”

— Rick Warren

72. “Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.”

— Rick Warren

73. “Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.”

— Rick Warren

74. “God is love. He didn’t need us. But he wanted us.”

— Rick Warren

75. “It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.”

— Rick Warren

76. “Martin Luther said, “You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.” You can’t keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.”

— Rick Warren

77. “Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable.”

— Rick Warren

78. “We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.”

— Rick Warren

79. “The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It’s focused attention.”

— Rick Warren

80. “Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.”

— Rick Warren

81. “Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.”

— Rick Warren

82. “People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.”

— Rick Warren

83. “God’s purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.”

— Rick Warren

84. “If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn’t be big enough for you to completely trust him.”

— Rick Warren

85. “Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.”

— Rick Warren

86. “We often miss hearing God’s voice simply because we aren’t paying attention.”

— Rick Warren

87. “Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.”

— Rick Warren

88. “When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.”

— Rick Warren

89. “Familiarity breeds complacency.”

— Rick Warren

90. “The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.”

— Rick Warren

91. “If you are facing trouble right now, don’t ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what’s right.”

— Rick Warren

92. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”

— Rick Warren

93. “God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.”

— Rick Warren

94. “When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.”

— Rick Warren

95. “People ask me, “Are you right wing or are you left wing?” and I always say, “I’m for the whole bird.” A one-winged bird didn’t ever get off the ground.”

— Rick Warren

96. “Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.”

— Rick Warren

97. “Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.”

— Rick Warren

98. “A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God’s No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.”

— Rick Warren

99. “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.”

— Rick Warren

100. “Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days – when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great – and you turn to God alone.”

— Rick Warren