100+ Rick Warren Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.

Topics: Hurt, Opportunity, Use

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God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

Topics: Comfort, Found, Explanation

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Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you.

Topics: Christian, Hurt, Track

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.

Topics: Stress, Worry, Trying, Stress Reliever

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Topics: Faith, Christian, Godly, Focus On Yourself, Coffee Cup

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.

Topics: Humility, Roots, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

Jesus said, "I am the way [to heaven]." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.

Topics: Jesus, Liars, Heaven

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

source: - FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 01, 2012

Topics: Pain, Kindness, People, Kind People, Unkindness

I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.

Topics: Mean, Long, Everyday, Long Time Ago

I do believe in what I call the stewardship of influence as well as the stewardship of affluence. And that is you use whatever God gives you not for your own benefit, but use it to help people who have no benefit. And when you use whatever God gives you, he gives you more of it. When you use it well, he gives you more of it.

Topics: Believe, Giving, People

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

Topics: Giving, Portions, Spending Your Time, Gift Of Time, Purpose Driven Life

My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.

Topics: Fire, Goal, Motivated, Self Motivated

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Topics: Positive, Want, Remember, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance

I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

Topics: Stress, Hey, Imagine, Stress Reliever, General Manager

In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.

Topics: Faith, Hero, Eye

I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.

Topics: Heart, Leader, Church, Local Church

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

source: - FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Sep 04, 2013

Topics: Impossible, Praying, Intimidating, Impossible Situations

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

Topics: Wings, People, Bird, Left Wing, Right Wing

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

source: - FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Apr 21, 2013

Topics: Dark, Tests, Praise God, Happy Times, Dark Times

We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody is right all the time. I'm not right all the time. I don't agree with anybody all the time, and I don't even agree with myself all the time.

Topics: Ideas, Democracy, Pluralism, Pluralism Is

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.

Topics: Giving, Choices, Asking, Faith In Love, Change God

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.

Topics: Differences, What Matters, Long

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Topics: Reality, Careers, Faithful, Loyal And Faithful, Intimacy With God

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

Topics: Positivity, Wearing A Mask, Pretending, Faking It

I want evangelicals to be known not for what they're against, but what they're for. Yes, there are some things that I believe are flat out wrong. There is no doubt about it, and I'm not wishy-washy about it. But my agenda is bigger than simply those issues. My agenda is to be as big as the agenda of Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Believe, Issues

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

Topics: Jesus, Apology, Christ, Higher Power

I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.

Topics: Thinking, Feelings, Tides

The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.

Topics: Feelings, Way, Teach

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Topics: Perfect, People, Use

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

Topics: Hurt, Blessing, People, Good Choices

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.

Topics: Prayer, Character, Promise, Unanswered, Delayed

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.

Topics: Weather, World, Comfort, Finding Strength, Sin In The World

Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

Topics: Hurt, Healing, People, Greatest Life, Purpose Driven Life

The only antidote to materialism is giving, because materialism's all about getting. Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time I give, I become more like Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Heart, Giving

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

Topics: Earth, Eternity, Remembered, Purpose Driven Life

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

Topics: Prayer, Giving, Thanks, Short Prayer

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

Topics: Love, Marriage, Rose, Gift Of Love, Focused Attention

The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small and try to accomplish them too quickly.

Topics: Thinking, Goal, People, Conventional Wisdom

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

Topics: Character, Remember, Habit

Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.

Topics: Wise, Jesus, Men, Gift Giving

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

Topics: Children, Believe, Parent, Illegitimate Child

God has given us a gift in Jesus Christ. And people don't understand: it's for our benefit. One of the things that says, "For unto you is born this day a savior." They say, "Well, I don't need a savior." Believe me: if you didn't need one, God wouldn't have sent it. Because he wouldn't have wasted the time.

Topics: Jesus, Believe, People

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Topics: Change, Past, Growth, Learning From Our Mistakes, Our Past

I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don't think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.

Topics: Christian, Jesus, Believe

Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.

Topics: Jesus, Loneliness, Stress, God Has A Plan

I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God.

Topics: Buddhist, Jesus, Love You, Methodists, Still Love You

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

Topics: Struggle, Years, Mushrooms, Oaks, Great Souls

He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

Topics: People, Church, Needs

There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.

Topics: Want, Earth, Persons

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

Topics: Giving Up, Integrity, Humility

I dare you to try trusting Jesus for 60 days. Or your money guaranteed back.

Topics: Jesus, Trying, Dare

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Topics: Commitment, Shapes, You Choose

To me, God says, "I've given you this gift of grace, which means you don't earn your way to heaven. You don't work your way to heaven. You simply receive my gift."

Topics: Mean, Heaven, Grace

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

Topics: Destiny, Identity, Purpose

I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.

Topics: Political, Earth, Pastor, Peace On Earth, Peace With God

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

Topics: Christian, Contradiction, Term, Serving

There's never going to be peace in the world until there's peace in nations. There's never going to be peace in nations till there's peace in communities and families and in individual lives.

Topics: Community, World, Individual, Individual Life

Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

Topics: Leader, Easy, Hard Things, Easy Things

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

Topics: Hands, Law, Government

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

Topics: Giving, Responsible

There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.

Topics: Teacher, Doctors, People, Illiteracy

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

Topics: Christian, Religion, Want, Purpose Driven Life, Wildest Dreams

People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

Topics: People, Volunteer, Church

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

Topics: People, Way, Serving Others, Community Service, Christian Service

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Topics: Keys, Brain, Trying

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

source: - Rick Warren (2008). “God's Power to Change Your Life”, p.35, Zondervan

Topics: Christian, Prayer, Stress, Stress Reliever, Valve

The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.

Topics: Evil

Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

Topics: Opportunity, Effectiveness, Faces

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

Topics: Government, Doers, Earth

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

Topics: Helping Others, People, Happy People, Purpose Driven Life

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

Topics: Country, Doubt, Dying, Things Worth Dying For

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

source: - FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Sep 18, 2009

Topics: Purpose, Speak, Influence

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Topics: Christian, Time, Love Is, Expressions Of Love, Purpose Driven Life

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Topics: Moments

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

source: - Twitter post from May 31, 2010

Topics: God, Running, Sometimes

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.

Topics: Life, Christian, People, Weak People

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Topics: Journey, Discovery, Despair, Spiritual Transformation

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

Topics: Today, Mates, Court

After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.

Topics: Purpose, Worship, God Love

You are as close to God as you choose to be.

Topics: You Choose

Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.

Topics: Spiritual, Godly, God Is With You

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Topics: Ministry, Painful, Painful Experiences

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

Topics: Humility, Thinking, True Humility, Intellectual Humility, False Humility

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

Topics: Purpose, Plans

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

source: - FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Nov 11, 2011

Topics: Past, Worry, Today, Stop Worrying

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

Topics: Community, Fellowship, Purpose

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

source: - Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.97, Zondervan

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

Topics: Stress, Roots, Causes, Root Cause

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.

Topics: Thinking, Appreciate, Worry

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.

Topics: Leader, Moments, Learners

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

Topics: Christian, Use, Worship

I believe that you measure the health or strength of a church by its sending capacity rather than its seating capacity.

Topics: Christian, Believe, Church

The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with respect. Today, tolerant means - 'you must approve of everything I do.' There's a difference between tolerance and approval. Jesus accepted everyone no matter who they were. He doesn't approve of everything I do, or you do, or anybody else does either. You can be accepting without being approving.

Topics: Jesus, Mean, Gay, Approving

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

Topics: Christian, People, Religion

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

Topics: Christian, Long, Parent

We are only fully alive when we're helping others

Topics: Christian, Helping Others, Alive

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

Topics: Commitment, Way, Define You

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.

Topics: Christian, Religion, Trying

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

Topics: Christian, Spiritual, Religion

Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

Topics: Important, Earth, Want

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

Topics: Christian, People, One Line

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

Topics: Letting Go, Use, Purpose, Purpose Driven Life

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Topics: Commitment, Church, Grows, Great Commission

Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.

Topics: Wall, Humility, Pride

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

Topics: Spiritual, Character, Opportunity, Moral Fiber

Self worth and net worth are not the same.

Topics: Self Worth, Self

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Topics: Pain, Helping Others, Use, Purpose Driven Life

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

Topics: Running, Self, Tasks, Easy Tasks, Learning To Love

God specializes in giving people a fresh start.

Topics: People, Giving, Fresh Start

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

Topics: Hurt, Resentment, Resent, Hurting Yourself, Offenders

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

Topics: Tragedy, Purpose, Purpose Driven Life

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

Topics: Jesus, Temptation, Defeat

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

Topics: What Matters, Duration, Matter

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

Topics: Character, Tests, Life Is

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

Topics: Thinking, Aspect, Term, Short Term Thinking

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Topics: Productivity

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

Topics: Purpose, Events, Life Is

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

Topics: Jesus, Philosophy, Thinking, Thinking Of Others

He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.

Topics: People, Miracle, Fellowship

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.

Topics: Focus, Problem, Resolution, Disagreement, Unrealistic Expectations

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

Topics: Growing Up, Character, Goal, Character Development, Ultimate Goal

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

Topics: Letting Go, Past, Differences, Mercy And Forgiveness

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

Topics: Past, Salvation, Given

The smile of God is the goal of your life.

Topics: Goal

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.

Topics: Moving, Self, Weapons, Fear And Faith

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.

Topics: Way, Purpose, Invention

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

Topics: Pain, Loss, Growth, Without Pain

There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

Topics: Purpose, Focused

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

Topics: Real, Community, Wicked, Wicked Ways

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

Topics: People, Littles, Belittle

The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.

Topics: Church, Too Much, Problem

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

Topics: Character, Quality, Events

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

Topics: Voice, Listening, Verses, Bible Verse

If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

Topics: Giving, Tests, Messages, Greatness Of God

When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.

Topics: Worry, Worship

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Topics: Character, Identity, Chemistry

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

Topics: Opportunity, Acts Of Service, Great Opportunity, Small Acts

Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

Topics: Jesus, Grace, Hopeless, Hope And Faith, Grace And Mercy

Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.

Topics: Jesus, Forever, Want, God First

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

Topics: Encouragement, Pain, People, Deep Pain, Pain And Sorrow

Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.

Topics: People, Leader, Care

Let your broken heart create an open heart

Topics: Heart, Broken, Open Heart

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Topics: Past, Giving, Resentment

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Topics: Distance, Easy

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Topics: Compromise, Conviction, Compassionate, Gay Lifestyle

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

Topics: Moments, Wisest

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

Topics: Tests, Realizing, Life Is

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Topics: Perfect, Ministry, Use

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

Topics: Doubt, Unanswered Questions, Trust In God, Walk By Faith

In God's garden of Grace, even broken trees bear fruit.

Topics: Garden, Broken, Tree

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

Topics: Church, Groups, Worship

If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.

Topics: Worry, Confidence In God, God Is In Control, Commitment To God, Connecting With God

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

Topics: Real, Maturity, Hands

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

Topics: Humility, Weakness, Honest

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

Topics: Perfection, People, Quality

God's LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end.

Topics: Ocean, Love Is, Ends, God's Love

People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

Topics: People, Leader, Helping

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

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

source: - FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Oct 04, 2013

Topics: Worry, Want, Firsts, Just Be Yourself, Listen To Your Heart

If you don't know how to do it, get around someone else who does.

Topics: Doe

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

Topics: Godly, Men, Godly Man, Godly Woman

If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

Topics: Impact, Focus, Trying, Dabbling, Prunes

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

Topics: Want, Circumstances, Confidence In God, Spiritual Transformation

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.

Topics: Heart, Giving, Broken, Mending, Broken Pieces

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

source: - FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 28, 2012

Topics: Trying, Limits, Praying

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Topics: Educated

A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Thinking, Purpose, Romans 8

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

Topics: Broken, Tree, Fruit

You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something

Topics: Mistake, Making Mistakes, Relax, Live And Learn, Learning From Mistakes

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

Topics: Men, White, House

When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.

Topics: Jesus, Ministry, Firsts, Small Groups

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

Topics: Ministry, Life Is

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

Topics: Thinking, Talent

We may not always finish what we start but God always finishes what He starts.

Topics: May

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

Topics: Priorities

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

Topics: Children, Successful, Adults

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

Topics: Advice, Stewardship, Partnership, Showmanship

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

Topics: Responsibility, Advice, Understanding

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

Topics: Advice, Risk, Age

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

Topics: Water, Advice, Bills, Greener, Grass Is Greener

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

Topics: Perspective, People, Creative

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

Topics: Jesus, Pain, Answers, Jesus Love, I Love Jesus

Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).

Topics: Christian, Football, Spiritual

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

Topics: Needs, Knowing God

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.

Topics: Pain, Suffering, Religion, Trusting Him, Praise God

I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

Topics: Dog, Heaven, Imagine

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

Topics: Purpose, God Life, Significance, Without God, Purpose Driven Life

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.

Topics: Blessed, Helping Others, Blessing

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

Topics: Monday, Famous Motivational, Crowds, Purpose Driven Life

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

Topics: Jesus, Easter, Home, Jesus Christ Easter, Kids Easter

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Topics: Mind, Complaining, Arguing

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

Topics: Purpose, Praying, Influence, Solomon

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

Topics: Country, Military, Firsts, Military Service

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Topics: God, Prayer, People

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.

Topics: Strong, Worry, Grows

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

Topics: Purpose Driven Life

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Topics: Believe, Church, Separation

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.

Topics: Mistake, Winning, Justice

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Topics: Church, Culture, Shows

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Topics: Perfect, People, Use

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