Quotes from Rick Warren

It is a fatal mistake to assume that God's goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.

You are as close to God as you choose to be.

If God only used perfect people, nohting would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.