Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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To be is to do.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I often reread books I have written.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
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I hate when people say, 'Well, this is unfair for the underdog.' Well, the underdog should try harder.
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
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The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
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The best shows I've done, the writers, actors, and directors have been pretty much left alone - maybe given a little guidance to make it a little more this or more that. But the heavier the hand on the show, I find, the more troubled the show is.
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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.
