Rick Warren Quotes

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Rick Warren

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 28, 1954

The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.

Rick Warren

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

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We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

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During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

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I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

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The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

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Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

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It's easy to demonize from a distance.

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I just think the Internet has made us ruder.

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Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

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I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

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But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

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The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

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It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.

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God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

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Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

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The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.

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