Rick Warren Quotes

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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.

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If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

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Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.

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Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

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Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.

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Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

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At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

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Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

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You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

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Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

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The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.

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God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

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Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

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If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice.

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The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

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To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.

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

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You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

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Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

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Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

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As Christians we're called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ's family and be members of his body.

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Worship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed in the service. More people are won to Christ by feeling God's presence than by all our apologetic arguments combined. Few people, if any, are converted to Christ on purely intellectual grounds. It is the sense of God's presence that melts the heart and explodes mental barriers.

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

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What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.

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We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

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If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

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Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission.

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When a human body is out of balance we call that disease.... Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs.... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.

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