Gaither Quotes

#1. I love that word. Gaydar. So clever."
"I'm afraid mine is broken," Burke said. "It never occurred to me that you were gay."
"It's because I'm teeming with masculinity," Gaither joked.

Michael Thomas Ford

#2. The Church at its worst is still better than the world at its best!

Bill Gaither

#3. Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.

Gloria Gaither

#4. Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

Gloria Gaither

#5. If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around.

Gloria Gaither

#6. I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

Gloria Gaither

#7. Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

Gloria Gaither

#8. [The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

Horace Rowan Gaither

#9. I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

Gloria Gaither

#10. Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.

Gloria Gaither

#11. Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

Gloria Gaither

#12. Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.

Gloria Gaither

#13. the thngs that matter most in this world can never be held in our hand.

Gloria Gaither

#14. I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

Bill Gaither

#15. I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

Gloria Gaither

#16. I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that".

Bill Gaither

#17. Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on ...

Gloria Gaither

#18. There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

Gloria Gaither

#19. How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

Gloria Gaither

#20. When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Gloria Gaither

#21. There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

Gloria Gaither

#22. There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony.

Bill Gaither

#23. Get me out of this," Caine demanded.
Quinn said, "It's not so easy. You should know: you're the scumbag who invented cementing.

Michael Grant

#24. What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.

Gloria Gaither

#25. With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

Gloria Gaither

#26. We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Gloria Gaither

#27. Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

Gloria Gaither

#28. We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.

Gloria Gaither

#29. The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand.

Gloria Gaither

#30. When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

Gloria Gaither

#31. There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving.

Gloria Gaither

#32. God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.

Gloria Gaither

#33. In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

Gloria Gaither

#34. I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I'm going to be. But, thank God, I'm not what I was!

Gloria Gaither

#35. God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."

Gloria Gaither

#36. We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House ... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.

Horace Rowan Gaither

#37. Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

Gloria Gaither

#38. What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.

Gloria Gaither

#39. The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Gloria Gaither

#40. Glorious wrappings sheath the gift of one day more.
Breathless I unwrap the package.
Never lived this day before.

Gloria Gaither

#41. When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Gloria Gaither

#42. God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

Gloria Gaither

#43. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone.

Bill Gaither