You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

- Rick Warren

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

- Rick Warren

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

- Rick Warren

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

- Rick Warren

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

- Rick Warren

I never have been involved in politics.

- Rick Warren

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

- Rick Warren

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

- Rick Warren

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

- Rick Warren

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

- Rick Warren

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

- Rick Warren

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

- Rick Warren

The church must always show compassion, always.

- Rick Warren

The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.

- Rick Warren

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

- Rick Warren

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

- Rick Warren

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

- Rick Warren

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

- Rick Warren

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

- Rick Warren

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

- Rick Warren