Quotes from Rick Warren

Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.

If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

The greatest things in life are not things.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.

God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

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.

The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.