Bart Millard Quotes

My dad was a monster and I realized if the gospel could change that dude, the gospel can change anybody.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.

As long as our heart's beating, there's a chance for us, or whoever that person is in our life, and I don't know how the story turns out, but I do know that no one is out of the reach of God, and that anybody's capable of change.

Sometimes I think Jesus can't wait until we preachers finish our boring sermons. He can't wait to heal people.

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

I believe Jesus Christ is God. I believe He loves every single human being that has ever lived, no matter what they have done, even if they don't believe in Him.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

Wherever you live on this earth, and whatever your life's situation may be, I testify to you that the gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!