Quotes about God
There is no greater antidepressant than communication and fellowship with God.
— Rick Warren
Pain is the fuel of passion — it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess. C. S. Lewis said, "Pain is God's megaphone." It is God's way of arousing us from spiritual lethargy. Your problems are not punishment; they are wake-up calls from a loving God. God is not mad at you; he's mad about you, and he will do whatever it takes to bring you back into fellowship with him.
— Rick Warren
The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.
— Rick Warren
To be a friend of God, you must care about all the people around you whom God cares about. Friends of God tell their friends about God.
— Rick Warren
the greatest hindrance to God's blessing in your life is not others, it is yourself — your self-will, stubborn pride, and personal ambition. You cannot fulfill God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
— Rick Warren
Nothing will change permanently until you dig down to the bedrock of truth about your life and God's purpose for it.
— Rick Warren
If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about, what he cares about most is the redemption of the people he made.
— Rick Warren
Faith, not feelings, pleases God.
— Rick Warren
Every human being was created by God, but not everyone is a child of God.
— Rick Warren
You may have had so many failures at changing the way you eat or exercise or think or act that the possibility of lasting change feels like an unreachable goal. Well, to be honest with you, it probably will be — unless you plug into God's power. What is impossible from a human standpoint is easy to God. With God, today's impossibility is tomorrow's miracle.
— Rick Warren
Nothing matters more than knowing God's purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them — not success, wealth, fame, or pleasure. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
— Rick Warren
Surrendering is not repressing your personality. God wants to use your unique personality. Rather than its being diminished, surrendering enhances it. C. S. Lewis observed, "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.
— Rick Warren