Rick Warren

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others.

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.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

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

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.

Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.

Self-worth and net worth are not the same.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God.

What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.