EXCERPTS 'Purpose-Driven Life'

Passages from the Rev. Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life":
"You are a work in progress. Your spiritual transformation in developing the character of Jesus will take the rest of your life, and even then it won't be completed here on earth. It will only be finished when you get to heaven or when Jesus returns."
"Thinking of others is the heart of Christlikeness and the best evidence of spiritual growth. This kind of thinking is unnatural, countercultural, rare and difficult. Fortunately, we have help: God has given us his spirit. That's why we don't have to think the same way that the people of this world think."
"Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance."
"When you grasp the eternal consequences of your character development, you'll pray fewer 'comfort me' prayers ('Help me feel good') and more 'conform me' prayers ('Use this to make me more like you')."
"In heaven God is going to openly reward some of his most obscure and unknown servants -- people we have never heard of on Earth, who taught emotionally disturbed children, cleaned up after incontinent elderly, nursed AIDS patients, and served in thousands of other unnoticed ways."