Quotes from Michael W. Smith

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this project is taking will open it up to a whole new audience as well.

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

I think music is my destiny. I want to commit myself for what God called me to do.

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

each one of us will face a moment when eternity whispers into our hearts, This is your time.

Real joy comes when we get the right desire met - the desire for God himself, for a life led by the Spirit, fulfilling not our material desires but our deepest need, which is to be in a close relationship with our Creator. That is the source of true blessing. The only source.

true blessings come not from stuff or from satisfying the self; they come from submitting one's self to God.

Far from being a way to achieve success, ease, and comfort, Christianity calls us to live a life that forgets self and focuses on being God's instrument to show his love to others.