Rick Warren Quotes

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

~ Rick Warren

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

~ Rick Warren

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

~ Rick Warren

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

~ Rick Warren

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

~ Rick Warren

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

~ Rick Warren

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

~ Rick Warren

Knowledge increases responsibility.

~ Rick Warren

The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

~ Rick Warren

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us.

~ Rick Warren

Stop trying, & start trusting.

~ Rick Warren

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

~ Rick Warren

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.

~ Rick Warren

You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God – and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

~ Rick Warren

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships.

~ Rick Warren

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

~ Rick Warren

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

~ Rick Warren

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.

~ Rick Warren

You're only as sick as your secrets.

~ Rick Warren

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

~ Rick Warren

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

~ Rick Warren

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

~ Rick Warren

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

~ Rick Warren

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

~ Rick Warren

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough people, we’ve got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have.” That church is, in reality, actually saying, “The rest of the world can go to hell. We don’t care.

~ Rick Warren

God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

~ Rick Warren

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

You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.

~ Rick Warren

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

~ Rick Warren

True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.

~ Rick Warren

Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.

~ Rick Warren

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

~ Rick Warren

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

~ Rick Warren

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

~ Rick Warren

In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.

~ Rick Warren

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

~ Rick Warren

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...

~ Rick Warren

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

~ Rick Warren

Jesus has not promised to build your ministry, he has promised to build his church.

~ Rick Warren

Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.

~ Rick Warren