Bart Millard Quotes

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

The more we make our lives about us, then the more we waste our time. When we get older, we devote our lives to ourselves, and then we wasted it. If we want to devote our lives to something significant, something that matters, then we should devote our lives to the Lord Jesus.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whether I'm playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

I am trying to get closer to God.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.