998 Quotes by Rick Warren

Familiarity breeds complacency.

The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.

Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.

Obedience unlocks understanding.

Obedience unlocks God's power.

God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't.

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough people, we’ve got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have.” That church is, in reality, actually saying, “The rest of the world can go to hell. We don’t care.

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.