Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Rich Mullins - Page 2

Sometimes I think of Abraham How one star he saw had been lit for me He was a stranger in this land And I am that, no less than he And on this road to righteousness Sometimes the climb can be so steep I may falter in my steps But never beyond your reach

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.

I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have.

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion.

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.

The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.

I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups - Im not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldnt participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

We are not as strong as we think we are

I dont know that the United States is Gods Country, but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.

Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.

If you can't be good, be loud.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.