Quotes by Rick Warren

Rick Warren (b. 1954) — Pastor und Bestsellerautor · evangelikal / Baptist · USA

Rick Warren ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor und Autor, der 1980 die kalifornische Saddleback Church gründete und zu einer der einflussreichsten Megachurches der Gegenwart aufbaute. Mit Bestsellern wie „Leben mit Vision“ prägte er ein zielorientiertes Gemeindemodell, stieß mit seinem methodischen Pragmatismus auf theologische Kritik und führte seine Gemeinde 2023 wegen der Ordination von Frauen zum Ausschluss aus dem Southern-Baptist-Verband. Bibellesern begegnet er vor allem durch leicht verständliche, alltagsnahe Andachten und Impulse zur praktischen Glaubenspraxis.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Meaning & Identity, Time & Transience, Guidance & God's Will, Prayer & Silence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Discipleship, Faith & Trust, Growth & Character

Quotes by Rick Warren

Grieving is hard. Grieving in public is even harder. Grieving when haters celebrate your pain is hardest of all.

Rick Warren

Your greatest ministry will most likely come out of your greatest hurt.

Rick Warren

If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.

Rick Warren

A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.

Rick Warren

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Rick Warren

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Rick Warren

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

Rick Warren

For instance, God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. It takes no character to love people who are lovely and loving to you

Rick Warren

Forgiveness Is NOT Cheap. It Cost Jesus Christ his life.

Rick Warren

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

Rick Warren

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Rick Warren

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Rick Warren

For Christians, death is a transfer, a promotion.

Rick Warren

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

Rick Warren

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.

Rick Warren

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

Rick Warren

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

Rick Warren

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

Rick Warren

You will never know how to really live until you're ready to die.

Rick Warren

God never does anything accidentally, and he never makes mistakes.

Rick Warren

God’s purpose is greater than our problems.

Rick Warren

Contentment comes when you enjoy what you have rather than waiting for something else to make you happy.

Rick Warren

The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.

Rick Warren

God has never made a clone. God only makes originals.

Rick Warren

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Rick Warren

God's goodness is the fact that he gives us good things in life that we don't deserve.

Rick Warren

Jesus doesn't just change your perspective. He changes your values.

Rick Warren

How much will this matter in 100 years?

Rick Warren

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

Rick Warren

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Rick Warren

Complaining is a total waste of time. It's stewing without doing.

Rick Warren

If you won't be you, then who will be?

Rick Warren

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

Rick Warren

If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.

Rick Warren

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