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“Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
It is not enough to just say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless. "My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action." Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is "T-I-M-E.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?

“Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Life is a gift...
Life is a test...
Life is temporary assignment....”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”
― 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?

“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Maturity is produced through relationships and community.”
― 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?

“Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.”
― 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?