Walter Mercado Quotes

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

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

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.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

The scriptures were one of the ways God spoke to me - even when I was a child - about my needs, my situation, and my life. They still are. Since our needs change over a lifetime, God has different things to tell us at different times.

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

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

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

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

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

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.

I was running from the calling of God because I didn't want the responsibility of standing upright and living under a microscope. I know now that others' destinies rely on my destiny and purpose. I've accepted the challenge and am actively walking in that purpose.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

I walk with the Lord, just trusting day by day and week by week and month by month, what the next season holds and what the best next move for me is.

You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do.

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.