Amy Grant Quotes

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then - my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you - because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.

I hope maybe 'The Returned,' in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.

I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.

I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

I guess it's about getting older. I know that I'm going to lose people that I love - I'm going to die myself - so everything seems to be getting somehow sweet and more important and more special and more humbling and more challenging and more terrifying all at the same time.

Death is an absolute marvel.

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.