Quotes from Rick Warren

We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.

There is one thing that motivates me. It is the global glory of God. I am first and foremost a missionary. I am an evangelist and a missionary.

If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.

God has a purpose behind every problem.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

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.

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

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.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.

Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven.

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

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.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us.

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.