Rick Warren Quotes

God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Sometimes when God brings things into an individual's life, it makes them totally depend on Him.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.