Top 100 Rick Warren Quotes
#1. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God?
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#2. Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.
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#3. The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.
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#4. Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.
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#5. God's LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end.
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#6. Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.
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#9. This is what God wants most from you: a relationship!
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#10. Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.
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#11. We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.
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#12. Spiritual maturity is becoming like Jesus in the way we think, feel, and act. The more you develop Christlike character, the more you will bring glory to God. The Bible says, "As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more."16
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#13. To be a friend of God, you must care about all the people around you whom God cares about. Friends of God tell their friends about God.
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#14. The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral. Having been through literally hundreds if not thousands of funerals: ... It makes a difference what you believe.
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#15. Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.
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#16. The average American consumes ten pounds of chemical additives a year.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
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#19. When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.
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#20. Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
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#21. 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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#22. Our habits control our lives. We shape our habits; then our habits shape us.
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#23. the average American consumes 22 to 30 teaspoons of sugar every single day.
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#24. I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.
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#25. 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.
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#27. You focus your attention on a single truth from the Bible and then continue to think about it throughout your day.
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#28. Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.
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#29. Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
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#30. Dear Jesus, more than anything else, I want to get to know you intimately.
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#31. You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.
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#32. In 1800, the average person consumed 5 pounds per year;7 now we average 152 pounds a year.
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#33. When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.
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#35. Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!
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#36. 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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#37. Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down
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#38. 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.
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#39. What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
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#40. Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting.
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#41. He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
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#42. Knowing you're a child of the creator of the universe changes everything.
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#43. Possessions only provide temporary happiness.
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#44. The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read
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#45. You don't have to be famous to be great.
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#46. 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.
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#47. God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.
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#48. The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.
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#49. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
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#50. God was thinking of you long before you ever thought about him. His purpose for your life predates your conception. He planned it before you existed, without your input!
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#51. We bring God glory by worshiping him. Worship is our first responsibility to God. We worship God by enjoying him.
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#52. Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
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#55. The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants
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#56. A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.
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#57. PINEAPPLE SALSA: 1 cup fresh pineapple, diced (if fresh is unavailable, use canned pineapple and drain juice) 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped ¼ large red onion, diced fine ½ teaspoon black pepper 1 fresh lime COMBINE SALSA INGREDIENTS in a bowl, and refrigerate at least 1
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#58. Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.
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#59. Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
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#60. When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation. If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate!
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#61. Your spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever.
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#62. How would it make you feel if God showed you what you could have accomplished in life if you had just believed him a little bit more?
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#63. Gluten is found in wheat barley, rye, spelt, oats, and kamut and holds bread together and makes it rise.
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#64. Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt.
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#65. Can I trust God? Trust is an essential ingredient to surrender. You won't surrender to God unless you trust him, but you can't trust him until you know him better. Fear keeps us from surrendering, but love casts out all fear. The more you realize how much God loves you, the easier surrender becomes.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.
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#68. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
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#69. If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.
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#70. The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
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#71. The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.
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#72. Lasting change requires new ways of thinking. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act. If you want to change how you act, you must begin by changing the way you think. Your thoughts are the autopilot of your life.
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#73. Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
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#74. You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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#75. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.
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#76. Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.
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#77. If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about, what he cares about most is the redemption of the people he made.
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#78. 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).
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#79. I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?
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#80. How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this much to me."
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#81. Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.
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#82. Father, I know you're going to do some incredible things in your world today. Please give me the privilege of getting in on some of what you're doing." In other words, church leaders should stop praying, "Lord, bless what I'm doing" and start praying, "Lord, help me to do what you are blessing.
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#83. God says there is a direct relationship between how I use my money and the quality of my spiritual life. How I manage my money ("worldly wealth") determines how much God can trust me with spiritual blessings ("true riches").
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#84. Egg yolks also contain choline and B vitamins.
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#85. Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
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#86. I never get involved in policy. Never.
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#87. You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'
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#88. You will not be in heaven two seconds before you cry out, Why did I place so much importance on things that were so temporary? What was I thinking? Why did I waste so much time, energy, and concern on what wasn't going to last?
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#89. 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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#90. There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.
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#91. Contentment is an expression of faith in the goodness of God. It says, God, I believe you love me and know what's best for me.
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#92. And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
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#93. You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.
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#94. After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.
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#95. Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.
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#96. Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.
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#97. God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.
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#98. Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.
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#99. You exist only because God wills that you exist.
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#100. The Daniel Plan focuses on the core food groups of healthy carbs, healthy fats, healthy protein, healing spices, drinks, and super foods.
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