Billy Tauzin Quotes

I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

I don't think God's through with me.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.

I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.