Rick Warren Quotes

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

That's God's number one purpose, to make us like Christ.

Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who chose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of our individual sins and transgressions, but His Atonement also enables us to do good and become better in ways that stretch far beyond our mortal capacities.

God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

Jesus Christ had a sense of destiny.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

I don't think God's through with me.

If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.