The Daniel Plan Quotes

“With his arms outstretched, nailed to the cross, Jesus was saying, “This is how valuable you are to me. I love you this much! I’d rather die than live without you.” You are priceless.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Failure is a part of everyone’s journey. But it is your attitude toward failure that will determine your ultimate success.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“The first thing on Dr. Amen’s master to-do list, the first thing he sees each day, is his gratitude list. Rather than just writing down a few things, he keeps a running tab on what he is grateful for, looks at it every day, and adds to it as joyful moments occur.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“If you want to know how valuable your life is to God, just look at the cross. With his arms outstretched, nailed to the cross, Jesus was saying, “This is how valuable you are to me. I love you this much! I’d rather die than live without you.” You are priceless.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“The single best and easiest thing you can do for your health is to recalibrate your taste buds and learn to enjoy pure clean water.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“When our dreams shatter and we feel helpless, that’s when we have to believe in God’s power and presence.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“You have to trust God even when you don’t get what you want.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“anyone in recovery will tell you, setbacks are part of the process in long-term change. Rather than beat myself up, I simply asked God and my friends to help me get back on track.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“it’s hard to be spiritually strong and mentally alert when you are emotionally stressed or physically fatigued.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Stand up for 1 to 2 minutes, and thank God for the many blessings in your day and life. (Chapter 6 will inspire you even more with the power of gratitude for your mental health.) Stretch your shoulders and arms, but close your eyes to worship God in silence. Squat up and down 5 to 10 times while thinking about how you are becoming Daniel Strong. With each repetition, thank God for a strong, healthy body and the ability to move.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Every bite you take is a powerful opportunity to create healing or infirmity.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Where God guides, he provides. What he calls you to do, he equips you to do. He doesn’t need your strength and willpower, but he does need your commitment. He wants you to live an abundant life that includes a vibrant faith, a vibrant body, and a vibrant mind.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“The fact is, you will never reach your optimum health without paying attention to the spiritual dimensions of your life.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“The Daniel Plan is designed to cut cravings, satisfy your appetite, and teach you to listen to your body.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“The Daniel Plan is rooted in a very simple principle: Take the junk out and let the abundance in.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“God has given you a mission in life, and only you can fulfill it.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Nothing will change permanently until you dig down to the bedrock of truth about your life and God’s purpose for it.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Our habits control our lives. We shape our habits; then our habits shape us.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits — new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“A lot of times we change, not when we see the light, but when we feel the heat.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“It’s hard to imagine that we feed ourselves and our children food that we wouldn’t even feed our dog. Would you give your dog a cheeseburger, fries, and a soda? We hope not. Then why would you feed them to your kid?”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“But faith develops in the valleys. When our dreams shatter and we feel helpless, that’s when we have to believe in God’s power and presence.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“What should you pray about? Everything! Here’s a simple rule: If it’s worth worrying about, then it is worth praying about. If you prayed as much as you worry, you would have a whole lot less to worry about.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“You may have had so many failures at changing the way you eat or exercise or think or act that the possibility of lasting change feels like an unreachable goal. Well, to be honest with you, it probably will be — unless you plug into God’s power. What is impossible from a human standpoint is easy to God. With God, today’s impossibility is tomorrow’s miracle.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Jesus said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“Lasting change requires new ways of thinking. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act. If you want to change how you act, you must begin by changing the way you think. Your thoughts are the autopilot of your life.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“God is not waiting for you to get physically healthy or spiritually mature before he starts loving you or enjoying you. He loves you right now, and he will be cheering you on at every stage of your growth and development. He is not waiting for you to cross the finish line first. He is smiling at you as you run the race.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life