Rick Warren Quotes

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.

If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.

The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.

If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.

True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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