Rich Mullins Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

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

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.

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

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.

Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

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.

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.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

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.

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am

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.

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

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.

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

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

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.

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.

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.

The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.

I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion.

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.

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

If you can't be good, be loud.

Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have.

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

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.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

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.

You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

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

If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

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.

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.

You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.

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!

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

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.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

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.

We are not as strong as we think we are

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

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.