Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Rick Warren

353. “The Bible says, “You must make allowance for each other’s faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.”14.”

— Rick Warren

354. “That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits – new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.”

— Rick Warren

355. “It doesn’t matter what your age is, God will use you if you will begin to act and think like a servant.”

— Rick Warren

356. “Marriage doesn’t create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.”

— Rick Warren

357. “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

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

— Rick Warren

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

362. “While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity.”

— Rick Warren

363. “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

364. “Possessions only provide temporary happiness.”

— Rick Warren

365. “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

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

— Rick Warren

367. “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

368. “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

369. “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

370. “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

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Rick Warren

375. “The Bible isn’t meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer of the Word!”

— Rick Warren

376. “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

377. “Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.”

— Rick Warren

378. “Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

380. “I absolutely believe that people should show respect to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of their beliefs, religious beliefs or any other kind of belief.”

— Rick Warren

381. “The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others.”

— Rick Warren

382. “In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to figure out that nothing matters more.”

— Rick Warren

383. “If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else’s reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.”

— Rick Warren

384. “Second, “What did you do with what I gave you?” What did you do with your life – all the gifts, talents, opportunities, energy, relationships, and resources God gave you? Did you spend them on yourself, or did you use them for the purposes God made you for?”

— Rick Warren

385. “Use ‘breath prayers’ throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath.”

— Rick Warren

386. “All sin, at its root, is failing to give God glory. It is loving anything else more than God. Refusing to bring glory to God is prideful rebellion, and it is the sin that caused Satan’s fall – and ours, too. In different ways we have all lived for our own glory, not God’s. The Bible says, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”9.”

— Rick Warren

387. “Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

389. “Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.”

— Rick Warren

390. “In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn’t delineate between legal and illegal.”

— Rick Warren

391. “Surrendered people obey God’s word, even if it doesn’t make sense.”

— Rick Warren

392. “A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.”

— Rick Warren

393. “Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.”

— Rick Warren

394. “There are illegitimate parents, but I don’t believe there are any illegitimate children.”

— Rick Warren

395. “So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don’t think God’s death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.”

— Rick Warren

396. “I’m naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.”

— Rick Warren

397. “Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.”

— Rick Warren

398. “When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, “Please stop. I don’t need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?” People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.”

— Rick Warren

399. “If there was no God, we would all be “accidents,” the result of astronomical random chance in the universe. You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond your brief years here on earth.”

— Rick Warren

400. “To me, God says, “I’ve given you this gift of grace, which means you don’t earn your way to heaven. You don’t work your way to heaven. You simply receive my gift.””

— Rick Warren