Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Rick Warren

303. “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

304. “The Bible says, “We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.”1 Our English word poem comes from the Greek word translated “workmanship.” You are God’s handcrafted work of art. You are not an assembly-line product, mass produced without thought. You are a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original masterpiece.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

306. “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

307. “It is impossible to do everything people want you to do. You have just enough time to do God’s will. If you can’t get it all done, it means you’re trying to do more than God intended for you to do.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

309. “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

310. “When you live in light of eternity, your focus changes from “How much pleasure am I getting out of life?” to “How much pleasure is God getting out of my life?”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

312. “The miracle of Christmas is not on 34th street; it’s in Bethlehem.”

— Rick Warren

313. “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

314. “The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

316. “Knowing your purpose gives your life meaning, simplicity, focus and motivation. It also prepares you for eternity.”

— Rick Warren

317. “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

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

— Rick Warren

319. “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

320. “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

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

— Rick Warren

322. “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

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

— Rick Warren

324. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

327. “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

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

— Rick Warren

329. “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

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

— Rick Warren

331. “Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.”

— Rick Warren

332. “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

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

— Rick Warren

334. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

337. “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

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

— Rick Warren

339. “I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God’s family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.”

— Rick Warren

340. “The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You’ve been forgiven, and you can forgive others.”

— Rick Warren

341. “Nothing matters more than knowing God’s purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them – not success, wealth, fame, or pleasure. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.”

— Rick Warren

342. “If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.”

— Rick Warren

343. “We don’t praise God to feel good, but to do good.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

345. “What’s true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it’s harder to do.”

— Rick Warren

346. “Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.”

— Rick Warren

347. “The world is always changed by people who don’t listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small and try to accomplish them too quickly.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

350. “The church that doesn’t want to grow is saying to the world, “go to hell.””

— Rick Warren