Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Knowledge increases responsibility."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God – and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough people, we’ve got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have.” That church is, in reality, actually saying, “The rest of the world can go to hell. We don’t care."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Repetition is the mother of character and skill."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"You exist only because God wills that you exist."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership!"

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye..."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence."

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?