Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It’s based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can’t demand it.”

— Rick Warren

152. “God’s Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you.”

— Rick Warren

153. “Maturity is produced through relationships and community.”

— Rick Warren

154. “Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.”

— Rick Warren

155. “At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.”

— Rick Warren

156. “Life is not fair, but one day God’s going to settle the score. He’s going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice – you or God?”

— Rick Warren

157. “REAL fellowship is being as committed to each other as we are to Jesus Christ.”

— Rick Warren

158. “Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you – your relationship with God.”

— Rick Warren

159. “In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.”

— Rick Warren

160. “Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.”

— Rick Warren

161. “While we wait for God to work for us, God is waiting to work through us.”

— Rick Warren

162. “If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.”

— Rick Warren

163. “Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!”

— Rick Warren

164. “Let love be your greatest aim.”

— Rick Warren

165. “Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.”

— Rick Warren

166. “Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.”

— Rick Warren

167. “Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you’re acting like an atheist. You’re saying, “It all depends on me.” That’s just not in the Bible.”

— Rick Warren

168. “The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God’s view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.”

— Rick Warren

169. “Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It’s a criticism of God’s plan for you.”

— Rick Warren

170. “There’s nothing in your life you can’t learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.”

— Rick Warren

171. “You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.”

— Rick Warren

172. “Failure isn’t a character quality. It’s just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.”

— Rick Warren

173. “The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don’t set the vision, you’re not the leader.”

— Rick Warren

174. “Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.”

— Rick Warren

175. “Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus.”

— Rick Warren

176. “But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don’t have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.”

— Rick Warren

177. “A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.”

— Rick Warren

178. “Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.”

— Rick Warren

179. “Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.”

— Rick Warren

180. “Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!”

— Rick Warren

181. “Faith is choosing and believing God’s dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.”

— Rick Warren

182. “You weren’t put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.”

— Rick Warren

183. “Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.”

— Rick Warren

184. “I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, “Hey, I’m God, and you’re not. You’re not the general manager of the universe.” And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously.”

— Rick Warren

185. “God hates loneliness, and community is God’s answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.”

— Rick Warren

186. “Jesus modeled a purpose-driven life, and he taught others how to live it, too. That was the ‘work’ that brought glory to God.”

— Rick Warren

187. “At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.”

— Rick Warren

188. “The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.”

— Rick Warren

189. “Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It’ll change everything.”

— Rick Warren

190. “Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.”

— Rick Warren

191. “Limited faith, limited future. Unlimited faith, unlimited future.”

— Rick Warren

192. “If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.”

— Rick Warren

193. “Don’t let your net worth determine your self worth.”

— Rick Warren

194. “In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.”

— Rick Warren

195. “Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”

— Rick Warren

196. “The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.”

— Rick Warren

197. “God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: ‘Use me.’”

— Rick Warren

198. “You do not grow stronger by accident – you grow stronger by intention.”

— Rick Warren

199. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.”

— Rick Warren

200. “I believe that you measure the health or strength of a church by its sending capacity rather than its seating capacity.”

— Rick Warren