Rick Warren Quotes

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When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.

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

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God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

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To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

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

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Use 'breath prayers' throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath.

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What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us

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

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God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him....You are the only Christian some people will ever know.

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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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God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

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Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

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Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

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We are commanded to recognize His glory, honor His glory, declare His glory, praise His glory, reflect His glory, and live for His glory.

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Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

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Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.

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Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

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This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

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Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.

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When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

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It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

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Only the Holy Spirit has the power to make the changes God wants to make in our lives.... We allow Christ to live through us... through the choices we make. We choose to do the right thing in situations and then trust God's Spirit to give us his power, love, faith, and wisdom to do it. Since God's Spirit lives inside of us, these things are always available for asking.

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To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God's agenda for your life.

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The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

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