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“God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.”
-- Rick Warren

#Hurt #Opportunity #Use
“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.”
-- Rick Warren

#Comfort #Found #Explanation
“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you.”
-- Rick Warren

#Christian #Hurt #Track
“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.”
-- Rick Warren

#Stress #Worry #Trying
“You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
-- Rick Warren

#Faith #Christian #Godly
“We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.”
-- Rick Warren

#Humility #Roots #Laughing
“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someoneâ€™s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You donâ€™t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
-- Rick Warren

#Life #Lying #Hate
“Jesus said, "I am the way [to heaven]." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.”
-- Rick Warren

#Jesus #Liars #Heaven
“Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.”
-- Rick Warren

#Pain #Kindness #People
“I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.”
-- Rick Warren

#Mean #Long #Everyday
“Itâ€™s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. Itâ€™s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.”
-- Rick Warren

#Dream #Ambition #Careers
“I do believe in what I call the stewardship of influence as well as the stewardship of affluence. And that is you use whatever God gives you not for your own benefit, but use it to help people who have no benefit. And when you use whatever God gives you, he gives you more of it. When you use it well, he gives you more of it.”
-- Rick Warren

#Believe #Giving #People
“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time”
-- Rick Warren

#Giving #Portions
“My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.”
-- Rick Warren

#Fire #Goal #Motivated
“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.”
-- Rick Warren

#Positive #Want #Remember
“I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”
-- Rick Warren

#Stress #Hey #Imagine
“In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.”
-- Rick Warren

#Faith #Hero #Eye
“I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.”
-- Rick Warren

#Heart #Leader #Church
“Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.”
-- Rick Warren

#Impossible #Praying #Intimidating
“People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.”
-- Rick Warren

#Wings #People #Bird
“The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.”
-- Rick Warren

#Dark #Tests #Praise God
“We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody is right all the time. I'm not right all the time. I don't agree with anybody all the time, and I don't even agree with myself all the time.”
-- Rick Warren

#Ideas #Democracy #Pluralism
“Only the Holy Spirit has the power to make the changes God wants to make in our lives.... We allow Christ to live through us... through the choices we make. We choose to do the right thing in situations and then trust God's Spirit to give us his power, love, faith, and wisdom to do it. Since God's Spirit lives inside of us, these things are always available for asking.”
-- Rick Warren

#Giving #Choices #Asking
“God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.”
-- Rick Warren

#Differences #What Matters #Long
“Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.”
-- Rick Warren

#Reality #Careers #Faithful
“Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.”
-- Rick Warren

#Positivity #Wearing A Mask #Pretending
“I want evangelicals to be known not for what they're against, but what they're for. Yes, there are some things that I believe are flat out wrong. There is no doubt about it, and I'm not wishy-washy about it. But my agenda is bigger than simply those issues. My agenda is to be as big as the agenda of Jesus.”
-- Rick Warren

#Jesus #Believe #Issues
“I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.”
-- Rick Warren

#Jesus #Apology #Christ
“I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.”
-- Rick Warren

#Thinking #Feelings #Tides
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Donâ€™t waste your pain; use it to help others.”
-- Rick Warren

#Pain #Helping Others #Use

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