Quotes From "The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For?" By Rick Warren

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose. Rick Warren

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice. Rick Warren

You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God — and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. Rick Warren

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life. How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships. Rick Warren

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. Rick Warren

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God. Rick Warren

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven. Rick Warren

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it. Rick Warren

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. Rick Warren

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Rick Warren

You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image. Rick Warren

Repetition is the mother of character and skill. Rick Warren

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements. Rick Warren

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

In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude. Rick Warren

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. Rick Warren

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye... Rick Warren

Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence. Rick Warren

We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely. Rick Warren

Real worship costs. Rick Warren

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice. Rick Warren

When you committed your life to Christ, he moved into the center; but you must keep him there through worship. Rick Warren

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Rick Warren

Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation. Rick Warren

You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know it’s purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal it’s purpose. Rick Warren

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Rick Warren

You 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

The 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

You exist only because God wills that you exist. Rick Warren

Death 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

Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity? Rick Warren

While 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

To 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

The 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

The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care. Rick Warren

Longing 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

What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity. Rick Warren

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. Rick Warren

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God. Rick Warren

Self-worth and net worth are not the same. Rick Warren

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. Rick Warren

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. Rick Warren

Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness. Rick Warren

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