Top 500 Rick Warren Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “I dare you to try trusting Jesus for 60 days. Or your money guaranteed back.”

— Rick Warren

402. “Prayer is the greatest use of my words.”

— Rick Warren

403. “Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.”

— Rick Warren

404. “What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us.”

— Rick Warren

405. “Knowledge increases responsibility.”

— Rick Warren

406. “Why you do what you do matters the most to God.”

— Rick Warren

407. “Growing marriages aren’t determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

409. “Lasting change requires new ways of thinking. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act. If you want to change how you act, you must begin by changing the way you think. Your thoughts are the autopilot of your life.”

— Rick Warren

410. “We bring God glory by loving other believers.”

— Rick Warren

411. “If there was more courting in marriage, there’d be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

413. “I’d rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.”

— Rick Warren

414. “Possessions only provide temporary happiness.”

— Rick Warren

415. “The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there’s some things worth dying for.”

— Rick Warren

416. “I happen to know people who are followers of Christ in other religions.”

— Rick Warren

417. “There’s never going to be peace in the world until there’s peace in nations. There’s never going to be peace in nations till there’s peace in communities and families and in individual lives.”

— Rick Warren

418. “The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.”

— Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

420. “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

421. “When you live in light of eternity, your values change. You use your time and money more wisely. You place a higher premium on relationships and character instead of fame or wealth or achievements or even fun. Your priorities are reordered. Keeping up with trends, fashions, and popular values just doesn’t matter as much anymore. Paul said, “I once thought all these things were so very important, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.”3.”

— Rick Warren

422. “Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.”

— Rick Warren

423. “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

424. “America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn’t create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.”

— Rick Warren

425. “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

426. “Even a broken tree can bear fruit.”

— Rick Warren

427. “I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.”

— Rick Warren

428. “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

429. “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

430. “Es posible dar sin amar, pero no se puede amar sin dar.”

— Rick Warren

431. “Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from sex. It doesn’t come from salary. It comes from serving.”

— Rick Warren

432. “As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God’s power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, “God, I can’t handle this!””

— Rick Warren

433. “The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.”

— Rick Warren

434. “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”

— Rick Warren

435. “Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That’s nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.”

— Rick Warren

436. “Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.”

— Rick Warren

437. “You don’t bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.”

— Rick Warren

438. “You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.”

— Rick Warren

439. “When the Bible speaks of God’s love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.”

— Rick Warren

440. “The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God.”

— Rick Warren

441. “Lust is raw selfishness. It’s all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.”

— Rick Warren

442. “I don’t think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.”

— Rick Warren

443. “I’m not looking for peace on earth through a political solution. I’m a pastor. The Bible talks about three kinds of peace. There is peace with God. There’s the peace of God. And there’s peace with each other.”

— Rick Warren

444. “I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.”

— Rick Warren

445. “Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.”

— Rick Warren

446. “We are only fully alive when we’re helping others.”

— Rick Warren

447. “There’s a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.”

— Rick Warren

448. “God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can’t claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.”

— Rick Warren

449. “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

450. “God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.”

— Rick Warren