I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We're going to fellowship in eternity. We know that because that's all who's going to be there - is believers. What does… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I'm looking for a second reformation. The first reformation of the church 500 years ago was about beliefs. This one is going… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I've often said why does God leave us here on earth, once we accept Christ, once we're in the family, why didn't… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship - it guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Change always starts in your mind. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“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… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“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… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
