Quotes from Amy Grant

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

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

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.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

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

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.

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

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

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 need music like I need water.

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.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

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

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

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

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

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

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

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.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.