Steven Curtis Chapman Quotes

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

This is life weve been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud.

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to celebrate with music the incredible reality of the Savior's birth.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

Satan is screaming lies over us all day long. And God whispers the truth is a still, small voice. So often the voice we listen to most is the one we hear loudest.

Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?