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
Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more of your time than your personal life, then that's called stress, okay? And it's called worry and things like that. Worry is a sign that you're trying to be God. The greatest stress reliever to me is this sentence: God is God, and I'm not.
Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.
Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he's not. Whatever struggle you're going through, you can rest assured you're not alone. You have God in your corner.
There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.
Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment....
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.