If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.
RICK WARRENFailure isn’t a character quality. It’s just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.
More Rick Warren Quotes
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If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
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Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
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Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.
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If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
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God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
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Worship isn’t an event to attend & watch. It’s a lifestyle to be lived.
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Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.
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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.
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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.
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Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
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Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.
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God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.
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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.
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To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
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We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
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The purpose of influence is to “speak up for those who have no influence.” It’s not about you.
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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.
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Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.
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In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
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Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.
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God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you’ve done.
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I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
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The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.
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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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If you prayed as much as you worry, you’d have nothing to worry about.
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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.
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