Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “The first purpose of your life is to be loved by God! Yes, it is important to serve him, obey, and trust him, but your first purpose is to love him.”

— Rick Warren

304. “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

305. “Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

307. “What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

311. “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

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

— Rick Warren

313. “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

314. “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

315. “Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they’re gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Rick Warren

320. “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

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

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

323. “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

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

— Rick Warren

325. “If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

327. “When you get to heaven God won’t ask you why you weren’t more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren’t more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.”

— Rick Warren

328. “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

329. “Whose opinion matters most to you? Whoever that person is, is your god. When you value anyone’s opinions more than God’s, you give that person power and authority that belongs only to God. That creates all kinds of insecurity within you. On the other hand, when God’s approval matters the most to you, it sets you free from insecurity, because he will never reject you.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

331. “The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that’s why I’m a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only – only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don’t think you can legislate the evil out of people.”

— Rick Warren

332. “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

333. “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

334. “I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it’s for leverage to do good.”

— Rick Warren

335. “Christmas is the time for celebration, so I’m not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.”

— Rick Warren

336. “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

337. “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

338. “You’ll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.”

— Rick Warren

339. “Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.”

— Rick Warren

340. “The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.”

— Rick Warren

341. “Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you’re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.”

— Rick Warren

342. “Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it!”

— Rick Warren

343. “But we are commanded to recognize his glory, honor his glory, declare his glory, praise his glory, reflect his glory, and live for his glory.7 Why? Because God deserves it! We owe him every honor we can possibly give. Since God made all things, he deserves all the glory. The Bible says, “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created everything.”8.”

— Rick Warren

344. “Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.”

— Rick Warren

345. “Those that innovate the future understand history the best.”

— Rick Warren

346. “We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don’t take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you’ll always have plenty of good material.”

— Rick Warren

347. “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

348. “We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.”

— Rick Warren

349. “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

350. “Because every day of your life was written on God’s calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.”

— Rick Warren