Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

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.

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

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.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, its thinking of yourself less.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only group large enough to handle, the worlds 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.

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

We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.

Real worship costs.

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.