01UndatedMany of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.Rick Warren / quote ↗
02UndatedYou also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.Rick Warren / quote ↗
03UndatedThe search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.Rick Warren / quote ↗
05UndatedHow Does What We Eat Affect the Planet? The things you put on your fork have the power to affect not only your health, but also agricultural practices, climate change, and even our economy. One church member told us about Nigerian farmers he met who were given seed by a large agricultural company at a cheaper price than their regular seed, but then the seeds from that crop couldn’t be replanted. (They are designed that way.) The farmers then were forced to buy the seed from the same company at a higher price the next year and eventually couldn’t afford to farm. This pattern of industrial agricultural practices not only has impacted the quality of the food you eat, but also creates hunger in little children in Africa. When you stop buying industrial food, it has an enormous ripple effect. The power of your fork can change the world. When it comes to our health and the health of the planet, we have a lot more to learn and study, but we don’t need all the answers in order to take action. We can each make choices to buy more whole foods, sustainably raised animals, locally grown produce, and more. Just as we’ve learned that certain fats are good for us and others are destructive, we can learn what agricultural and food practices are best for us too.Rick Warren / quote ↗
06UndatedDeath is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences to everything you do on earth. Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.Rick Warren / quote ↗
07UndatedWhy would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?Rick Warren / quote ↗
08UndatedWhile we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow. God views our lives from and for eternity, so he is never in a hurry.Rick Warren / quote ↗
09UndatedTo 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.Rick Warren / quote ↗
10UndatedThe New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership!Rick Warren / quote ↗
11UndatedThe cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.Rick Warren / quote ↗
12UndatedLonging for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.Rick Warren / quote ↗
14UndatedPretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.Rick Warren / quote ↗
15UndatedReal security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God.Rick Warren / quote ↗
18UndatedBecause God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love.Rick Warren / quote ↗
19UndatedYou cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.Rick Warren / quote ↗
20UndatedSurrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.Rick Warren / quote ↗
21UndatedGossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.Rick Warren / quote ↗
22UndatedWhat 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.Rick Warren / quote ↗
24UndatedI happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.Rick Warren / quote ↗
