Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
RICK WARRENThe 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.
More Rick Warren Quotes
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People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
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The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
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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.
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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.
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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 best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
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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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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.
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Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.
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You can’t make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something.
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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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Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.
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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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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.
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You don’t bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
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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.
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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.
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Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
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Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
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You are as close to God as you choose to be.
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Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.
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The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life’s purpose: Ask God.
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Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
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God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.
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Worship isn’t an event to attend & watch. It’s a lifestyle to be lived.
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If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.
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