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You are as close to God as you choose to be.

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
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Theologian
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San Jose
California
Richard Duane Warren
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HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.
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God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
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Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.
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The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.
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Self worth and net worth are not the same.
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To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side.
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We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.
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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.
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The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.
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When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.
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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.
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You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.
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Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?
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When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship
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You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.
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The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
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I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.
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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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We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.
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