Chris Mullin Quotes

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can't let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

I personally wouldn't be where I am without my faith. I know that for a fact.

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

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

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

We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.