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There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

Rich Mullins

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Rich Mullins
Age: 41 †
Born: 1955
Born: October 21
Died: 1997
Died: September 19
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Richard Mullins
Richard Wayne Mullins
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Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.
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There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground
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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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You will never understand what you're doin'. But God does.
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Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?
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The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.
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It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
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We are not as strong as we think we are
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If you can't be good, be loud.
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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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So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf. You have been King of my glory won't You be my Prince of Peace.
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We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.
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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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I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight
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My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.
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Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!
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I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.
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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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After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.
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Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
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