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
I've always said the shoes must never tell the foot how big to be.
I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.
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.
Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.
Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.
The way you see your life shapes your life.
While you're waiting, God's working.
You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.
The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.
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.
The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.
Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.
It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.