Rick Warren Love Quotes and Sayings

Rick Warren Love Quotes and Sayings

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1. Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can’t make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

2. It is not enough just to say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless.

3. Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is “T-I-M-E.”

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4. The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

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5. Life minus love equals zero.

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6. Love cannot be learned in isolation. You have to be around people—irritating, imperfect, frustrating people.

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7. The essence of love is not what we think or do or provide for others, but how much we give of ourselves.

8. The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention. Love concentrates so intently on another that you forget yourself at that moment.

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9. Grief is just an expression of love. If you’ve never grieved over anyone, you’ve never loved anyone.

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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Richard Duane “Rick” Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, currently the eighth-largest church in the United States (this ranking includes multi-site churches). He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent devotional The Purpose Driven Life which has sold over 30 million copies, making Warren a New York Times bestselling author.
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Sayings by Rick Warren

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1. We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

2. Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

3. Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. [S]

4. Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

5. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

6. Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow.

7. If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

8. Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

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9. Humility is not denying your strengths, but accepting your weaknesses.

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10. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act.

11. Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don’t know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

12. Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

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13. While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others. There isn’t enough time to learn everything in life by trial and error. We must learn from the life lessons of one another.

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14. You can’t grow strong without resistance.

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15. The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that’s how we learn.

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16. Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

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17. Admitting your mistakes doesn’t make you weak. It makes you credible.

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18. Every great comeback first requires a setback. What you’re going through is a season of life, not the end of your life.

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19. Regardless of your age, the rest of your life can be the best of your life, and you can start living on purpose today.