Rick Warren Quotes

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.
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Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.
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You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
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Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
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Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.
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Self-worth and net worth are not the same.
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Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God.
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Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
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What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.
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Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
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The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.
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The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership!
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To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
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Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences to everything you do on earth. Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?
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While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow. God views our lives from and for eternity, so he is never in a hurry.
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How Does What We Eat Affect the Planet? The things you put on your fork have the power to affect not only your health, but also agricultural practices, climate change, and even our economy. One church member told us about Nigerian farmers he met who were given seed by a large agricultural company at a cheaper price than their regular seed, but then the seeds from that crop couldn’t be replanted. (They are designed that way.) The farmers then were forced to buy the seed from the same company at a higher price the next year and eventually couldn’t afford to farm. This pattern of industrial agricultural practices not only has impacted the quality of the food you eat, but also creates hunger in little children in Africa. When you stop buying industrial food, it has an enormous ripple effect. The power of your fork can change the world. When it comes to our health and the health of the planet, we have a lot more to learn and study, but we don’t need all the answers in order to take action. We can each make choices to buy more whole foods, sustainably raised animals, locally grown produce, and more. Just as we’ve learned that certain fats are good for us and others are destructive, we can learn what agricultural and food practices are best for us too.
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You exist only because God wills that you exist.
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The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.
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You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.
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Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.
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You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know it’s purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal it’s purpose.
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I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I've done, but because of what Jesus has done.
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Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.
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Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
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Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.
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We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.
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Real worship costs.
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It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.
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When you committed your life to Christ, he moved into the center; but you must keep him there through worship.
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The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.
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God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.
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Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...
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Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
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In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.
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God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
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The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
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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.
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Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
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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.
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Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.
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Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.
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Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.
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You're only as sick as your secrets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.
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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.
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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.
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Stop trying, & start trusting.
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