Quotes by Rick Warren

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Envy is based on the misconception that you need more to be happy.

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It is not only what you eat and what you digest that matters, but also what digests you. You may have all the necessary life-prolonging and organic foods in your life, but if you are filled with resentment, worry, fear, longing, guilt, poison, bitterness, or other emotional ailments, it will shorten your life.

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In the battle for sin, defeat or victory is decided on the battlefield of our mind. What can grab our attention has grabbed us.

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Many times, big opportunities disguise themselves as small tasks.

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There are two main forms of time wasting: regret and worry. When we regret the past, we waste a lot of time looking back at something we can't change anyway. And when we worry about the future, events that may never happen fill us with anxiety. The consequence of this is that we waste our daily amount of energy and time.

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The Bible says that "God has planted eternity in the heart of man." Our inner instinct tells us that it would be good to be immortal, and this is also due to the fact that God - by molding us in his own image - gives us eternal life. Even though we are aware that everyone has to die sooner or later, we definitely feel that death is unnatural and unfair. And we believe that we should live forever for no other reason than that God planted this desire in our brains!

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We were not born on earth to be remembered, but to prepare for eternity.