Amy Grant Quotes

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.

I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.

All I ever have to be is what you made me.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

I need music like I need water.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

I'm going to live what I believe