Rick Warren Quotes

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

O thou sole god, whose power no other possesses. Though didst create the earth according to thy desire, being alone: Man, all cattle, large and small; All that are upon the earth.

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

God does not play dice.

For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they believe an omnipotent God should do. It reasons that if God is all powerful, then certainly He would not have taken millions of years to make the earth.

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.