Rick Warren
Rick Warren
Richard Duane "Rick" Warrenis an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California, that is the eighth-largest church in the United States. He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1954
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.
I just think the Internet has made us ruder.
You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.
A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.
Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.
God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him....You are the only Christian some people will ever know.
Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.
There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.
The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God.
We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.
The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.
We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.