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 I can't get my wife to agree with me on everything or my kids to agree with everything. Rick Warren agree wife kids There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back. Rick Warren want-u earth want I believe in the five solas. One hundred percent believe in the five solas. And I am - to those of you who know about this - I'm a monergist [someone that believes in the doctrine that says spiritual renewal is exclusively the activity of the Holy Spirit]. Rick Warren doctrine spiritual believe I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace. Rick Warren grace wish believe The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people. Rick Warren issues heart thinking I'm not looking for peace on earth through a political solution. I'm a pastor. The Bible talks about three kinds of peace. There is peace with God. There's the peace of God. And there's peace with each other. Rick Warren peace-with-god political three The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings. Rick Warren teach feelings way Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven. Rick Warren home heaven jesus I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously. Rick Warren hey imagine stress There's never going to be peace in the world until there's peace in nations. There's never going to be peace in nations till there's peace in communities and families and in individual lives. Rick Warren individual community world The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small and try to accomplish them too quickly. Rick Warren goal people thinking The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers. Rick Warren doers government earth We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody is right all the time. I'm not right all the time. I don't agree with anybody all the time, and I don't even agree with myself all the time. Rick Warren pluralism-is democracy ideas I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart. Rick Warren church leader heart I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all. Rick Warren care energy blessed There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people. Rick Warren doctors teacher people I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity. Rick Warren brain trying thinking The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands. Rick Warren government law hands People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together. Rick Warren volunteer church people America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every other country. Rick Warren religious country america
