rich mullins quotes from myspace

"If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy."

"Nobody tells you when you get born here how much you'll come to love it and how you'll never belong here. So i'll call you my country, but i'll be lonely for my home..."

"I'm just not as convinced as everybody else seems to be that God has a specific will for each of us and that our job in life is to figure out what is right for us to do. I kinda tend to think that we should be where we are, be God's person in the place where we are. And if God wants you to go to Egypt, He will provide eleven jealous brothers, and they will sell you into slavery. That He will take care of His will, we don't have to worry about God's will. Not in that way."

"Well, that's the only thing I know I'm going to do in my life. I don't know if I'll be a success, a failure, married, single...but I do know that sooner or later, I'm going to die. The finality of that is kind of like God's little joke. No matter how cool you think you are, you will decompose."

"For me, the greatest joy that I have is knowing that I do have a Father Who loves me and that He doesn't love me in a passive way...that He loves me so much that He sent Christ to take away the guilt of my sin, and that it is a real thing, that it really did happen. If I experience joy in this life, it will be when I let other people know that there is a God Who loves them, and He has taken away the sin that separates them. There is no greater joy than just that proclamation."

"Folks, God knew you at your worst before He ever sent Christ to die for you. And the good news of Christianity is not that Christ came into the world to make good little boys and girls. Christ came into the world to take away the sins that you've allowed to come between you and God. It's sad to me to believe - to look out there and see - when you're driving down the road and you see people who are afraid, you see people who are angry, and you go, "If only you knew how crazy about you God was! God already loved you, if only you knew!""

"I think that part of being human is being alone. And being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of out friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. And they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they can't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something they they can't do for us."

"It never fails. God will put people in you path to irritate you, especially if you're prone to be irritated."

"The long and short of it all is that if I believe that God is good, then I need to accept whatever happens to me in life as being a gift, and allow Him to take some of the things that hurt, allow Him to take some of the things that sting, some of the things that I think are going to kill me - allow Him to take those things and make of me the person He wants me to be. It may not be the person I want to be, but it'll be the person He would want me to be."

"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."

"I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit."

"My worldly friends think I'm too Godly and my Godly friends think I'm too worldly."

"If we can reach beyond the wisdom of this age into the foolishness of God that foolishness will save those who believe although their foolish hearts may break they will find peace"

"A person who is honest about their personal failings and knows they desperatly need the Grace and love of God; someone more concerned about finding an intimate relationship with God than fulfilling the expectations of cultural Christianity."-Ragamuffin - by The Ragamuffin Band

"I really struggle with American Christianity. People in America grow up in a culture that worships pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when it uses Jesus as a vehicle for acheiveing all of that. Many people believe that if you give a tithe to the church then God will make you rich. Why?...If you tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent because God can handle money better than we can."