Scott Stapp Quotes

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.

I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.

I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

God puts us in position to do the things we need to, both on and off the track, to honor Him.

God will put me where he wants me.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

That will be the position I will be in as long as I'm on earth--that is, seeking the right path that God would have laid out for me.

I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, along the way!' One day, as I was singing this song, I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, 'Lead you along what way?' I realized then that if you don't have a plan, God doesn't have anything specific to direct you in.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.