Quotes from Rich Mullins

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

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

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

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.

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

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

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.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.