Rick Warren Quotes

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.

I don't think God's through with me.

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.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

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

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

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