Bart Millard Quotes

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.

It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

I don't want to say it's nice to see people cry, because of course it isn't, but there's something really emotional and lovely about seeing the impact you're having on someone's life.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, 'Oh man, they need to feel better today.'

I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.

I'm not here to put bruises on people's backs or to send them to the hospital. I'm here to put smiles on people's faces.

The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.