Top 739 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Warren - Page 4

Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.

You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more of your time than your personal life, then that's called stress, okay? And it's called worry and things like that. Worry is a sign that you're trying to be God. The greatest stress reliever to me is this sentence: God is God, and I'm not.

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 it for you.

Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.

The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit...

You don't have to be famous to be great.

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.

Life minus love equals zero.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect and walk into freedom.

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

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

We become whatever we are committed to.

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.

Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death.

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes.

Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.

Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

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.

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.

If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

We are only fully alive when we're helping others

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

You must match your music to the kind of people God wants your church to reach.... The music you use 'positions' your church in your community. It defines who you are.... It will determine the kind of people you attract, the kind of people you keep, and the kind of people you lose.

It is never too late to start growing.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.