Top 79 Rich Mullins Quotes
#1. Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
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#2. 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.
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#3. It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.
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#4. So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.
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#5. The difference between me and most Protestants is most Protestants have no problem at all saying 'The Lord told me this' or 'The Lord told me that,' but they won't believe that the Lord speaks through the pope. You know, at least this guy has some credentials.
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#6. I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better ...
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#7. There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.
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#8. I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.
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#9. If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.
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#10. Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.
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#11. 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.
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#12. God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.
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#13. My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done ... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.
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#14. Well, I wrote that song for the village, but I wrote this one for the sky.
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#15. Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
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#16. I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.
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#17. I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.
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#18. In the end, it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars, but it will matter if you didn't live.
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#19. There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground
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#20. 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.
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#21. It never fails. God will put people in your path that irritate you, especially if you're prone to be irritated.
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#22. You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.
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#23. I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight
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#24. 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.
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#25. If you're really looking for answers, look past me. But if you're interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.
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#26. Theres a wideness in Gods mercy
I cannot find in my own
And He keeps His fire burning
To melt this heart of stone
Keeps me aching with a yearning
Keeps me glad to have been caught
In the reckless raging fury
That they call the love of God
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#27. I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more ...
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#28. The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.
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#29. 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 couldn't reconcile.
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#30. Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.
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#31. God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.
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#32. Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have ...
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#33. The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.
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#34. If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.
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#35. Love knows no classification whether you are rich, poor, minority, famous, man, woman, or whatever you have been labeled. Love is love and is for everyone.
To understand your soul is to understand yourself.
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#37. We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?
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#40. I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.
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#41. I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn't participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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
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#44. The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.
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#45. Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.
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#46. Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience.
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#47. We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.
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#48. There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.
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#52. So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf. You have been King of my glory won't You be my Prince of Peace.
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#53. 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.
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#54. If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!
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#55. When I die, they're going to have to bury me because if they don't, I'll stink up the place.
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#57. You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.
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#58. I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, 'This is how you're supposed to do it.' And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, 'Here's the good stuff in life. How do you get there?'
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#59. Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.
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#60. I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion,
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#61. I don't know that the United States is 'God's 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.
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#62. Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.
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#63. Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.
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#64. I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ain't got no taste. And, I don't think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art.
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#65. 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,
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#66. When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed
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#67. 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!
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#68. 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.
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#69. It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.
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#70. Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids - not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.
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#71. I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.
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#72. We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.
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#73. And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.
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#74. God is a wild man ... should you encounter him ... hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.
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#75. Wealth can't be defined in terms of what we have, but only in terms of how free we are to give and take".
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#76. What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.
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#77. We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.
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#78. I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am
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#79. It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
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