Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
-
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
-
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
-
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
-
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
-
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
-
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
-
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-
Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
-
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
-
We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
-
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
-
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
-
To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
-
I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
-
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
-
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
-
I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
-
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
-
This album was total therapy. I'm way more at peace now. Writing these songs and saying everything we had to say makes it possible to move on.
-
This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.
-
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
-
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.
