110+ Rick Warren Quotes On Prayer, Time And Faith

Rick Warren is an American writer, pastor, and theologian. He is the author of the best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold over 34 million copies and has been translated into many languages. He is also the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Rick Warren on prayer, love, time.

Top 10 Rick Warren Quotes

1. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
2. God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.
3. The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
4. A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
5. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
6. Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD
7. Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
8. Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
9. A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.
10. People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

Rick Warren Short Quotes

• There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
• Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.
• I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
• The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
• Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.
• Familiarity breeds complacency.
• Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
• If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.
• You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
• A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

Rick Warren Quotes About Prayer

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. — Rick Warren

Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you. — Rick Warren

I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you. — Rick Warren

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him. — Rick Warren

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat. — Rick Warren

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured. — Rick Warren

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.' — Rick Warren

On Thanksgiving we do just everything except give thanks. We eat, we watch football, we have a good time with family. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat. — Rick Warren

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve. — Rick Warren

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Love

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. — Rick Warren

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. — Rick Warren

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention. — Rick Warren

There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can't do it - because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel. — Rick Warren

God's LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end. — Rick Warren

God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory. — Rick Warren

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. — Rick Warren

Life minus love equals zero. — Rick Warren

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. — Rick Warren

It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Time

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever. — Rick Warren

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up. — Rick Warren

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time. — Rick Warren

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. — Rick Warren

Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now. — Rick Warren

Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives. — Rick Warren

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it. — Rick Warren

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not. — Rick Warren

Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it! — Rick Warren

I spend most of my time speaking to people who totally disagree with me. I speak to gays, I speak to atheists, I speak to secularists, I speak to Muslims because I am trying to build a bridge between my heart and theirs so Jesus can walk across and they can come to know Christ. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Faith

In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity. — Rick Warren

Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope. — Rick Warren

When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future. — Rick Warren

Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary. — Rick Warren

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me. — Rick Warren

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private. — Rick Warren

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist. — Rick Warren

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. — Rick Warren

Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control. — Rick Warren

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Worship

When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry. — Rick Warren

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism. — Rick Warren

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God — Rick Warren

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way. — Rick Warren

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant. — Rick Warren

Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone. — Rick Warren

If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God. — Rick Warren

After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life. — Rick Warren

There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living. — Rick Warren

Worship isn't an event to attend & watch. It's a lifestyle to be lived. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Purpose

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. — Rick Warren

He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place. — Rick Warren

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act. — Rick Warren

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose. — Rick Warren

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity. — Rick Warren

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve. — Rick Warren

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. — Rick Warren

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others. — Rick Warren

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears. — Rick Warren

Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Success

Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them. — Rick Warren

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success. — Rick Warren

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His. — Rick Warren

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person. — Rick Warren

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him. — Rick Warren

Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life. — Rick Warren

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Hope

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. — Rick Warren

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. — Rick Warren

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope. — Rick Warren

Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope. — Rick Warren

To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision. — Rick Warren

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross. — Rick Warren

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances. — Rick Warren

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now. — Rick Warren

Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment. — Rick Warren

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. — Rick Warren

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others. — Rick Warren

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior. — Rick Warren

Everytime you forgive you disappoint the devil. — Rick Warren

To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it. — Rick Warren

I forgive. First, because I've been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I'm going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don't forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours. — Rick Warren

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others. — Rick Warren

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you. — Rick Warren

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Leadership

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you. — Rick Warren

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it. — Rick Warren

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership. — Rick Warren

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show. — Rick Warren

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership. — Rick Warren

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God. — Rick Warren

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization. — Rick Warren

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading. — Rick Warren

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Motivational

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more. — Rick Warren

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. — Rick Warren

Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem. — Rick Warren

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude. — Rick Warren

There is one thing that motivates me. It is the global glory of God. I am first and foremost a missionary. I am an evangelist and a missionary. — Rick Warren

You don't have to be famous to be great. — Rick Warren

God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you. — Rick Warren

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life. — Rick Warren

My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Inspirational

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be. — Rick Warren

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. — Rick Warren

We are only fully alive when we're helping others — Rick Warren

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love. — Rick Warren

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. — Rick Warren

Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs. — Rick Warren

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences. — Rick Warren

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life. — Rick Warren

You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity. — Rick Warren

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith! — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Spiritual

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. — Rick Warren

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ. — Rick Warren

Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death. — Rick Warren

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair. — Rick Warren

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer. — Rick Warren

Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit. — Rick Warren

Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong). — Rick Warren

Your spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever. — Rick Warren

If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist. — Rick Warren

I believe in the five solas. One hundred percent believe in the five solas. And I am - to those of you who know about this - I'm a monergist [someone that believes in the doctrine that says spiritual renewal is exclusively the activity of the Holy Spirit]. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Religion

The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal. — Rick Warren

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people. — Rick Warren

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless. — Rick Warren

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good. — Rick Warren

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves. — Rick Warren

Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says. — Rick Warren

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose. — Rick Warren

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths. — Rick Warren

One of the ways we reflect God's love and bring him glory is to accept each other just as he accepts us. This means we accept others' quirks and look past their faults in order to see a person created in the image of God. — Rick Warren

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God? — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Life

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached. — Rick Warren

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. — Rick Warren

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them. — Rick Warren

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings. — Rick Warren

If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point? — Rick Warren

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness. — Rick Warren

God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other. — Rick Warren

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. — Rick Warren

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make. — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Quotes About Valuables

Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God. — Rick Warren

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables. — Rick Warren

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things! — Rick Warren

Rick Warren Famous Quotes And Sayings

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you. — Rick Warren

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant. — Rick Warren

Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems. — Rick Warren

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process. — Rick Warren

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't. — Rick Warren

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. — Rick Warren

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable — Rick Warren

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material. — Rick Warren

If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry. — Rick Warren

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. — Rick Warren

God specializes in giving people a fresh start. — Rick Warren

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God. — Rick Warren

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you're honored by others. — Rick Warren

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back. — Rick Warren

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God. — Rick Warren

It is never too late to start growing. — Rick Warren

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up. — Rick Warren

Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face. — Rick Warren

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different. — Rick Warren

You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered. — Rick Warren

If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me. — Rick Warren

Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God. — Rick Warren

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works. — Rick Warren

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others. — Rick Warren

The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality. Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity. — Rick Warren

You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something — Rick Warren

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose. — Rick Warren

If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them. — Rick Warren

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. — Rick Warren

Life Lessons by Rick Warren

1. Rick Warren teaches that life is about relationships, and that the most important relationship is with God. He emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships with others and of being generous with our time and resources.
2. He also encourages us to take responsibility for our own lives, to be proactive in pursuing our goals, and to be humble and open to learning from our mistakes.
3. Finally, he reminds us that life is a journey, and that we should enjoy the journey and strive to make the most of every moment.