Kay Warren Quotes

#1. Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.

Kay Warren

#2. ...don't simplify your life so you can do more. Simplify your life so you can focus on what matters - and you are what matters. Simplifying your life means focusing on who you are physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you want to choose joy daily, that's the place to start.

Kay Warren

#3. I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'

Sophie Thompson

#4. Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

Kay Warren

#5. Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

Beryl Markham

#7. In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!

Kay Warren

#8. Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Kay Warren

#9. In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

Kay Warren

#10. I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

Kay Warren

#11. When trials expose our faith-life, will others see us embracing both the joy and the pain of our life? We do not need to live out one and deny the other. Those around us need to recognize that both of these elements are part of life, and both give us hope for heaven.

Kay Warren

#12. If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

Bear Bryant

#13. We try to bargain with God ... I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer ... We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

Kay Warren

#14. Spiritual growth doesn't happen automatically and is rarely pretty; we will all be "under construction" until the day we die and we finally take hold of the "life that is truly life" (1 Tim. 6:19).

Kay Warren

#15. People with depression have something very valuable to teach us ... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

Kay Warren

#16. The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.

Kay Warren

#17. When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain ... Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.

Kay Warren

#18. Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

Kay Warren

#19. I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

Bell Hooks

#20. one of the ways to decrease stress and increase joy is to find the "bless in the mess.

Kay Warren

#21. An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

Kay Warren