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Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

Rick Warren

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
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People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!
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A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.
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We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.
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Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.
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God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
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The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.
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Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).
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The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
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The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.
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If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.
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When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.
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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.
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Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
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Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.
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God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.
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Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down
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What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
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Our goal is to make God look good in the universe.
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I don't believe my interpretation's inerrant. I don't believe anybody else's interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant. I believe in the plenary, verbal plenary inspiration of scripture, without a doubt.
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We are all called to fulfill God's five purposes for our lives: to worship, to fellowship, to grow like Christ, to serve, and to be on mission with God in the world.
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