Rich Mullins Quotes

I think people want love in their lives.

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

Every little thing wants to be loved.

Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

Everyone loves to be loved.

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

We live in the world when we love it.

Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

I think everybody should be "pro-love."

It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.