The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at. Rich Mullins More Quotes by Rich Mullins More Quotes From Rich Mullins 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. Rich Mullins understanding prayer doe 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. Rich Mullins heart love-is character 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. Rich Mullins mean jesus thinking We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing. Rich Mullins guessing scripture humble Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken. Rich Mullins broken christianity jesus I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks. Rich Mullins nice angel knowing Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation. Rich Mullins different looks needs Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence. Rich Mullins grace prayer 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. Rich Mullins legacy ambition thinking 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. Rich Mullins cracks trying people Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. Rich Mullins given found love-is After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live. Rich Mullins scar ends matter The longer I live, the more I have the feeling like God looks down, like when you've just bitten into a vanilla ice cream cone, you just get the feeling God's going, 'Yes! He enjoys it, and I made his taste buds and I made vanilla and he's putting it together and he's experiencing what I created him to experience. Rich Mullins ice-cream together feelings 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. Rich Mullins pain hurt thinking 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. Rich Mullins lies-we-tell-ourselves spiritual lying Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it. Rich Mullins fake struggle people 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. Rich Mullins leading-me enough lost We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved. Rich Mullins saved My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself. Rich Mullins done littles jesus 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. Rich Mullins religious wish today
