Rich Mullins Quotes

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• 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.

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  Fall, Thinking, Ideas

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• God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.

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  Believe, Thinking, Today

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• God notices you. The fact is he can't take his eyes off of you. However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you. Some of us even fear that someday we'll do something so bad that he won't notice us anymore. Well, let me tell you, God loves you completely. And he knew us at our worst before he ever began to love us at all. And in the love of God there are no degrees, there is only love.

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  Crazy, Love You, Eye

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• Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

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  Beautiful, Jesus, Children

  Lufkin, Texas Concert Transcript, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Cost, Assuming

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ain't got no taste. And, I don't think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art.

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  Beautiful, Art, Love You

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• The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

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  Christian, Real, Struggle

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• The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

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  Sex, Betrayal, Book

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• 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.

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  Christian, Nuts, People

  Rich Mullins (2010). “The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin”, p.28, Multnomah

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

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  Succeed, Failing

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• I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our 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 don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Stress

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• Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what I've come to think. That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, who I claim to be my Savior and Lord, the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they're just wrong. They're not bad, they're just wrong. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken-hearted.

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  Jesus, Brother, Teaching

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

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  Thinking, Class, Meeting Someone

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• Theres a wideness in Gods mercy
  I cannot find in my own
  And He keeps His fire burning
  To melt this heart of stone
  Keeps me aching with a yearning
  Keeps me glad to have been caught
  In the reckless raging fury
  That they call the love of God

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  Heart, Fire, Burning

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

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  Timeless, Trendy, Save Me

  Song: Save Me, Album: Rich Mullins

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• So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

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  Real, Promise, Littles

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't want you to buy our records and come to our concerts. I sure do. But you should come for entertainment. If you really want spiritual nourishment, you should go to church... you should read the Scriptures.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Thinking

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Understanding, Doe

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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

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  Perfect, Church, Pretending

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• And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.

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  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

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  Running, Ideas, People

  Seminar at LeSEA Broadcasting Studios in South Bend, Indiana, February 1993.

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• Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.

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  Heart, Character, Love Is

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

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  Prayer, Grace

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• I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.

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  Love, Cancer, Ignorance

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• If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it's also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.

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  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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