Michael W. Smith 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.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I will be the first to say, when I started, I was the worst on the runway ever. I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway; I try to get better with each one. I hope that I'm getting better as I go - it takes a few seasons to get your Karlie Kloss walk on.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

I think God is sending us messages all the time but we get so busy fulfilling our ambitions or in our day-to-day tasks that we forget to connect to God.

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

The learning process continues until the day you die.