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Rick Warren is the influential pastor and founder of Saddleback Church. Duhigg describes how Warren spread his message and built a congregation by appealing to people’s habits. For instance, he accommodated people’s existing habits by letting them wear whatever they wanted to church, and he helped them build effective new ones by having them meet in the same small groups every week for Bible study. Duhigg views Warren’s success as evidence of how collective habits can be the foundation for social movements and communities.
Rick Warren Quotes in The Power of Habit
The The Power of Habit quotes below are all either spoken by Rick Warren or refer to Rick Warren . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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This is the third aspect of how social habits drive movements: For an idea to grow beyond a community, it must become self-propelling. And the surest way to achieve that is to give people new habits that help them figure out where to go on their own.
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Just like habit-changers often relapse into their old habits over time, social movements often lose steam—and sometimes collapse entirely—if they don’t start to see change after some time. For instance, many people started giving up on the Montgomery bus boycott, until Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave an impassioned speech that convinced them to continue. Similarly, the small groups at Rick Warren’s church often spent their time discussing gossip—not the Bible—until Warren gave them a unified religious curriculum to follow. King’s speech and Warren’s curriculum demonstrate a crucial principle about how habits help social movements stay afloat. Just like individuals, Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae ea
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Rick Warren Character Timeline in The Power of Habit
The timeline below shows where the character Rick Warren appears in The Power of Habit. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8: Saddleback Church and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: How Movements Happen
In 1979, the Baptist pastor Rick Warren was planning to build a new congregation. But he didn’t know where. He spent months...
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Rick Warren’s worldview is based on turning faith into a social habit. People complained about boring sermons,...
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Warren decided to have his congregants meet weekly, in small groups. This made church a key...
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