Amy Grant Quotes

I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town.

We go to church every year on Christmas morning.

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts, so I want to celebrate Jesus.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people.

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.

Christianity is the hallmark of civilization.

To the millions of non-Christians who live in this country, “our” culture is not their culture and they have not assimilated Christmas carols. Most people take their religion far too seriously to look upon religious songs as forms of art only. The day “Silent Night” is sung in Buddhist Temples and Jewish Synagogues throughout the United States is the day that “Silent Night” will have been assimilated into “our” culture.”

Who Needs Christ During Christmas? Nobody.

A lot of my writing comes from the themes of my life, and a lot of that stems from my faith. I also strive to be a light through which Christ can shine, whether it's through the way I dress, though my videos, or through my music.

When I was ordained as a pastor, I walked away from secular music for seven, eight years. It took me that time to learn that God is love.

My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!