Quotes from Larry Norman

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

I think we should all be servants. To be really great in God's eyes is to be least among each other and serve each other.

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

The Beatles said 'all you need is love,' then they broke up.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.