Rick Warren Quotes

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.

Doing Good Is My Religion

Go forth Monks and bring happiness to the many.