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
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.
God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.
Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.