“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
More from Rick Warren on Faith
“The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”
“In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.”
“God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.”
“Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.”
“We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.”
“Real worship costs.”
“It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.”
“I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I've done, but because of what Jesus has done.”
“You exist only because God wills that you exist.”
“Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?”
Others on Faith
Elizabeth George
30 quotes“God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.”
Saint Augustine
27 quotes“Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
John Piper
27 quotes“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”
Billy Graham
26 quotes“Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24 quotes“May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.”
A.W. Tozer
22 quotes“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God....”
John Calvin
21 quotes“True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.”
Charles Spurgeon
20 quotes“Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?”
Max Lucado
17 quotes“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
C.S. Lewis
17 quotes“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
Joel Osteen
16 quotes“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
Joyce Meyer
14 quotes“The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.”