If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
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… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's… — 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
What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God cannot lie.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear… — 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
You may have done some really nifty things in life, but if you think they're going to get you into Heaven, forget… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Every day I get a choice. I can choose to go God's way or I can choose to go my own way… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends? — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life. — 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
If your God doesn't look like Jesus, we don't worship the same God, sorry. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about. — 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
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
“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
If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it. — Rick Warren Copy Share
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
We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention. — Rick Warren Copy Share
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
“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
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
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. — Rick Warren Copy Share
“but it does mean God is able to redeem any and all situations and use them for his own good.” — Rick Warren Copy Share
Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace. — Rick Warren Copy Share
