Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you. Rick Warren More Quotes by Rick Warren More Quotes From Rick Warren There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him. Rick Warren persons The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath. Rick Warren clear wrath grace We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity. Rick Warren real race years I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same. Rick Warren real reading mean There is one thing that motivates me. It is the global glory of God. I am first and foremost a missionary. I am an evangelist and a missionary. Rick Warren glory missionary firsts My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both. Rick Warren real christian believe You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you. But we're going to serve Him in heaven. So what does God want us to do? Practice. Rick Warren practice white heaven What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin. Rick Warren witness sin heaven The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking. Rick Warren inability america thinking There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts. Rick Warren gods-plan hurt mistake We're going to serve in eternity. We're not going to sit around on clouds; you know this whole idea of heaven is wearing white robes with angels and play a harp. To me, that would be hell. I can't think of anything more boring. Rick Warren angel clouds thinking God uses everything for good in our lives. Rick Warren our-lives use Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that. Rick Warren males design together If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God. Rick Warren planets knows want Now I believe in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. I believe that we are in Christ, we are hid with Christ in God, and we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. So in essence, for Satan to get at me he has to go through the Trinity. Rick Warren essence spirit believe I believe what Irenaeus said - the glory of God is a human being fully alive. Rick Warren alive glory believe God wanted us to choose to love him. Rick Warren wanted I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten. Rick Warren floating blessing people If your God doesn't look like Jesus, we don't worship the same God, sorry. Rick Warren sorry looks jesus God is all powerful, He's in control. Rick Warren powerful
