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“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

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Life , God , Faith , Problem

“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

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Pain , Help

“It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.”

Rick Warren

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Love

“The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.”

Rick Warren

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Truth , Learning

“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”

Rick Warren

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

God

“The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”

Rick Warren

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

God , Friendship , Change

“As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.”

Rick Warren

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Faith , God

“Rick Warren: The issue to me, I'm not opposed to that as much as I'm opposed to redefinition of a 5,000 year definition of marriage. I'm opposed to having a brother and sister being together and calling that marriage. I'm opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that marriage. I'm opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage.
Steven Waldman: Do you think, though, that they are equivalent to having gays getting married?
Rick Warren: Oh, I do.”

Rick Warren

Response to the question: "What about partnership benefits in terms of insurance or hospital visitation?", as quoted in "Rick Warren’s Controversial Comments on Gay Marriage" by Steven Waldman at Beliefnet (17 December 2008) http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/12/rick-warrens-controversial-com.html

Marriage , Guy , Thinking , Sister

“The smile of God is the goal of your life. Since pleasing God is the first purpose of your life, your most important task is to discover how to do that. The Bible says, "Figure out what will please Christ, then do it." Fortunately, the Bible gives us a clear example of a life that gives pleasure to God. The man's name was Noah.”

Rick Warren

What Makes God Smile?
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002)

Life , God , Pleasure , Smile

“Be willing to let people leave the church. And I told you earlier the fact that people are gonna leave the church no matter what you do. But when you define the vision, you're choosing who leaves. You say, "But Rick, yes, they're the pillars of the church." Now, you know what pillars are. Pillars are people who hold things up … And in your church, you may have to have some blessed subtractions before you have any real additions.”

Rick Warren

Source: "Building a Purpose Driven Church" seminar, Saddleback Church (January 1998), quoted in "The Church Growth Movement: An Analysis of Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven" Church", in Foundation Magazine (March-April 1998)<!--http://web.archive.org/web/20090309055810/http://www.feasite.org/Foundation/fbcsdlbk.htm-->

People

“I am not an anti-gay or anti-marriage activist. Never have been, never will be. The whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement. Never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop 8 was going — the week before the vote, somebody in my church said, "Pastor Rick, what do you think about this?" And I sent a note to my own members that said, I actually believe that marriage is really, should be defined. If that definition should be saved between a man and a woman and then all of a suddenly out of it they made me, you know something that I really wasn't.”

Rick Warren
Marriage , Thinking