Bart Millard Quotes

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.

I go back to when my youngest daughter was dying. I never asked my Friend Upstairs, 'Why me?' And He's the only one who has the answers.

My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.

I had times when I'd be reading the Bible, and it would be talking about Jesus healing other people, and I'd be angry. I asked God some difficult questions. 'Why didn't you heal my wife?'

God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

My son died for lies.

My wife is already in Heaven.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.