"Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids — not because you are right. That’s how our Father listens to us.…We never understand what we’re praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
"And this is what I have come to think: That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, whom I claim to be my Savior and Lord, the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they’re just wrong. They’re not bad, they’re just wrong. Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
"I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity to me, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
"If you’ve ever known the love of God, you know it’s nothing but reckless and it’s nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn’t hurt it’s probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don’t really love Him, and they don’t really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it’s also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it’s like everything else that is really wonderful, there’s a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
"We are not saved because we’re good. We’re good because we’re saved."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
"I had a prof one time… He said, ‘Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway’."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
"So go out and live real good and I promise you’ll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you’re dead, you’ll be rotted away anyway. It’s not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn’t live."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
"Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won’t also cost you yours."
— Rich Mullins. Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
