Rick Warren Life Quotations

When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.

You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

The greatest things in life are not things.

Life is [perceived as] a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that 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. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

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.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

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.

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

You may have done some really nifty things in life, but if you think they're going to get you into Heaven, forget it. The only way any of us are going to get in is by receiving God's gift of grace, which is available to every person.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment....

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

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.

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

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

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

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

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

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

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

Life minus love equals zero.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

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

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

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

You must begin with God.

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

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

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.