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If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.

Rick Warren

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
Pastor
Theologian
Writer
San Jose
California
Richard Duane Warren
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Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
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If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.
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