Quotes from Rick Warren

God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

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

When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

Accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

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.

If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

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.

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.

Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.

During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

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

God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you.