Rick Warren Quotes

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.

Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I believe that all men and women will be saved.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

Gospel in its definition is good news.

Grace is the truth that Jesus came to give us.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

God has given us a gift in Jesus Christ. And people don't understand: it's for our benefit. One of the things that says, "For unto you is born this day a savior." They say, "Well, I don't need a savior." Believe me: if you didn't need one, God wouldn't have sent it. Because he wouldn't have wasted the time.

My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

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.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

According to the Burman system, there is no escape. According to the Christian system, there is. Jesus Christ has died in the place of sinners, has borne their sins; and now those who believe on Him, and become His disciples, are released from the punishment they deserve. At death, they are received into Heaven and are happy forever.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.