The World as I Remember It Quotes

“Love one another, forgive one another, work as unto God, let the peace of Christ reign in your hearts. Make it your ambition to lead quiet lives. Obey. Greet one another with a holy kiss. No one will argue with that.”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

“We walk by faith and not by sight – not because we are blind, but because faith gives us the courage to face or fears and puts those fears in a context that makes them less frightful. We walk by faith and not by sight because there are places to go that cannot be seen and the scope of our vision is too small for our strides. Faith is not a denial of facts – it is a broadening of focus. It does not deny the hardness of guitar strings, it plucks them into a sweetness of sound”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

“I am a Christian because I have seen the love of God lived out in the lives of people who know Him. The Word has become flesh and I have encountered God in the people who have manifested (in many “unreasonable” ways) His Presence; a Presence that is more than convincing—it is a Presence that is compelling. I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity to me, but because there were people who were willing to be nuts and bolts, who through their explanation of it, held it together so that I could experience it and be compelled by it to obey.”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

“Wealth can’t be defined in terms of what we have, but only in terms of how free we are to give and take”.”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

“Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

“And while reason may be found within His love, no reason would be able to contain his love. […] It is possible that the evidence of His divinity lies in that love – that in light of love, miracles seem sort of unremarkable. If God can love me, the rest will follow.”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

“If I loved my Master like my dog loves his, I would be more saintly than John the Divine…more radical than John the Baptizer…more deeply devoted than St. John of the Cross. My”
― Rich Mullins, The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin