Rick Warren Quotes

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

None of us are made to be worshipped, and when we take that in, we get sick.

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

Every day I get a choice. I can choose to go God's way or I can choose to go my own way or Satan's way or if I walk out of this door I don't know that I blame myself if my choice. .. because the bottom line is I want what I want what I want. ... People ask me what the greatest sin is. I feel the greatest sin is to want to be God: Pride, I want my own way. What it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ - give as much of yourself as you understand to as much of Jesus as you understand at that moment.

Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.

If you look at the life of Jesus, that's an example of true worship. You know look at the stories, if you want to learn about real worship read Matthew through John. Seriously. You just read it and you will see the true level. You see when Jesus is in the boat and the storm comes when it comes and the winds are blowing and Jesus is sleeping in the boat and the disciples are freaking out. And Jesus wakes up and says "What you guys got is a problem, no?" and he commands the seas to be calm that's true worship.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.