Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.”

— Rick Warren

302. “Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.”

— Rick Warren

303. “God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.”

— Rick Warren

304. “God’s purpose is not limited by your past.”

— Rick Warren

305. “Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven’t dealt with the root cause.”

— Rick Warren

306. “To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you – for your sake, not because they deserve it.”

— Rick Warren

307. “Every small group has at least one ‘difficult’ person in it. If you don’t immediately recognize who that person is – it’s probably you!”

— Rick Warren

308. “Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.”

— Rick Warren

309. “God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.”

— Rick Warren

310. “You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.”

— Rick Warren

311. “A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28.”

— Rick Warren

312. “You must begin with God.”

— Rick Warren

313. “You are loved by the One who knows you best. God’s love will never disappoint you and never give up on you.”

— Rick Warren

314. “The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.”

— Rick Warren

315. “We receive God’s grace by humbly admitting that we need it.”

— Rick Warren

316. “Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don’t do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren’t. You simply ask, “Does this activity help me fulfill one of God’s purposes for my life?”

— Rick Warren

317. “Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I’ll attend church but I won’t tithe. I’ll read my Bible but won’t forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.”

— Rick Warren

318. “What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.”

— Rick Warren

319. “If someone broke your heart it doesn’t mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.”

— Rick Warren

320. “Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.”

— Rick Warren

321. “If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.”

— Rick Warren

322. “God doesn’t owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I’ve found is that explanations don’t comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.”

— Rick Warren

323. “Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.”

— Rick Warren

324. “If you don’t live by priorities, you’ll live by pressures. Either you determine what’s important in life or other people will determine it for you.”

— Rick Warren

325. “Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs.”

— Rick Warren

326. “God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”

— Rick Warren

327. “I forgive. First, because I’ve been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I’m going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don’t forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours.”

— Rick Warren

328. “Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.”

— Rick Warren

329. “There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don’t realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender.”

— Rick Warren

330. “We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ.”

— Rick Warren

331. “You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, ‘This is what I’m intended to do.’ The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can’t fulfill it if I’m out of shape.”

— Rick Warren

332. “The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”

— Rick Warren

333. “I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.”

— Rick Warren

334. “The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.”

— Rick Warren

335. “The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.”

— Rick Warren

336. “Well, in the first place, military service, they don’t call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.”

— Rick Warren

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337. “We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we’re here. It was God’s property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die. You just get to enjoy it for a while.”

— Rick Warren

338. “As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God’s love.”

— Rick Warren

339. “In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.”

— Rick Warren

340. “God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.”

— Rick Warren

341. “Everytime you forgive you disappoint the devil.”

— Rick Warren

342. “The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.”

— Rick Warren

343. “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

344. “The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.”

— Rick Warren

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345. “Spiritual maturity is becoming like Jesus in the way we think, feel, and act. The more you develop Christlike character, the more you will bring glory to God. The Bible says, “As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more.”16.”

— Rick Warren

346. “Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.”

— Rick Warren

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347. “There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.”

— Rick Warren

348. “Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it’s purpose.”

— Rick Warren

349. “A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.”

— Rick Warren

350. “You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.”

— Rick Warren