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
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.
Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.
The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality. Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity.
If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.
Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.
I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God.
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
You are as close to God as you choose to be.