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Ministry is received, not achieved.

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
Pastor
Theologian
Writer
San Jose
California
Richard Duane Warren
Ministry
Received
Achieved

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Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.
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I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.
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The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.
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Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.
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Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.
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First open your heart, then open your Bible.
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Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.
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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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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.
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Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
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Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
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Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.
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I'm naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
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Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.
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God knows what it's like to lose a son.
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Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.
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Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven it begins here on Earth.
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