Rick Warren Quotes

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

All men are equal at the foot of the Cross.

We all need grace. We all need Christ.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.