In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
RICK WARRENOur hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.
More Rick Warren Quotes
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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.
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Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
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If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
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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.
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The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.
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If you prayed as much as you worry, you’d have nothing to worry about.
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One day it’s all going to be clear. It’s all going to make sense. You’re going to be able to say, “So that’s why God allowed that in my life!” Until then, God wants you to trust him.
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Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
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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.
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People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
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Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.
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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.
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We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.
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The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
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God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.
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