“Your identity is in eternity, and your homeland is heaven. When you grasp this truth, you will stop worrying about “having it all” on earth.”
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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.”
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Rick Warren
“Unfortunately, we forget the cruel details of the agonizing sacrifice God made on our behalf. Familiarity breeds complacency. Even before his crucifixion, the Son of God was stripped naked, beaten until almost unrecognizable, whipped, scorned and mocked, crowned with thorns, and spit on contemptuously.
Abused and ridiculed by heartless men, he was treated worse than an animal.
Then, nearly unconscious fromblood loss, he was forced to drag a cumbersome cross up a hill, was nailed to it, and was left to die the slow, excruciating torture of death by crucifixion. While his lifeblood drained out, hecklers stood by and shouted insults, making fun of his pain and challenging his claim to be God.”
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Rick Warren
“Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.”
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Rick Warren
“We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.”
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Rick Warren
“Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in some churches.”
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Rick Warren
“Surrendering is not repressing your personality. God wants to use your unique personality. Rather than its being diminished, surrendering enhances it. C. S. Lewis observed, “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
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Rick Warren
“Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.”
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Rick Warren
“The fact is, you will never reach your optimum health without paying attention to the spiritual dimensions of your life.”
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Rick Warren
“Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God.”
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Rick Warren
“God’s power is the key to any transformational change in our lives, including our health.”
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Rick Warren
“It’s encouraging to know that all of God’s closest friends — Moses, David, Abraham, Job, and others — had bouts with doubt. But instead of masking their misgivings with pious clichés, they candidly voiced them openly and publicly. Expressing doubt is sometimes the first step toward the next level of intimacy with God.”
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Rick Warren
“We bring God glory by loving other believers.”
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Rick Warren
“May the LORD smile on you…. NUMBERS 6:25 (NLT)”
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Rick Warren
“Jesus honored God by fulfilling his purpose on earth. We honor God the same way. When anything in creation fulfills its purpose, it brings glory to God.”
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Rick Warren
