Michael W. Smith Quotes
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.
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When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.
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God deserves the best from us.
