Words matter. These are the best Bart Millard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
On Christmas Eve, it’s my wife and my son and my daughter and I. We’re home, and we open our presents together on Christmas Day, and then after we go visit the rest of the family.
I have one brother who’s five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.
More than anything, whether it’s my dad’s fault or whatever, I wouldn’t allow myself to be loved. I lived most of my life thinking that I was unlovable, that I was broken goods, or whatever.
I don’t know what it is, but St. Louis has always welcomed us with open arms.
We never want to force the Bible down people’s throats. But I want them to ask, ‘What joy do they have that I don’t have?’ Let go and enjoy yourself and leave feeling like you can take on whatever you’re facing in life.
I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.
God was always a refuge for me growing up.
I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.
Writing Christian or worship music is just because I love Jesus, so everything I do is going to be an overflow of that.
I’m not trying to shove anything down anybody’s throat.
I am just sitting back and trying to take in the idea that the God who created everything around us, He didn’t call the mountains or the forest or the ocean to spend eternity with Him, but He called us.
We started making independent records. We started in ’94 until about 2000 when just kind of just did it ourselves… We’d write our own songs. No one cared… At some point, we decided to try and write our own original stuff and one of the last independent records is when we wrote the song ‘I Can Only Imagine.’
Part of the tradition of the Christmas season is every night my son and I hit the town and look for every Christmas light we can find. This is something my son absolutely adores.
When my father died of cancer in 1991, he left me with the assurance that he was headed to a better place. He used to always tell me that I was getting the raw end of the deal because I had to stick around here.
Yeah, musically, from a production standpoint my favorite is probably ‘Have a Little Talk with Jesus’. Just the way it turned out production wise with the clarinet and everything, it sounds like something from a movie.
You didn’t choose Christian music because it’s more beneficial. It doesn’t pay more. It doesn’t make you more famous. There’s some reason why you came to this. What changed your life at some point?
We are not disqualified or bad people trying to be good. We are holy, righteous, and redeemed. Sometimes, we spend more time on what we used to be and not who we are now.
We try to do everything that we can to make Christ the center of attention. Our goal is to kind of broaden the definition of worship. I know that God has always used us as a forefront for people to draw closer to Him and get into His presence.
My son, Sam, is 15 years old, and he’s been a diabetic since he was 2. When you’re a parent of a child with any kind of chronic illness, these things don’t go away. You have a lot of good days, but some days you feel like you’re losing bad.
Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.
As long as our heart’s beating, there’s a chance for us, or whoever that person is in our life, and I don’t know how the story turns out, but I do know that no one is out of the reach of God, and that anybody’s capable of change.
I did everything religion told me to do for a long time only to end up frustrated, beat down and jaded. I couldn’t keep up. No matter how hard I tried, it was never enough. So I decided to quit. And I did.
As long as there’s breath in our lungs our story is still being written.
At some point, I talked about how I had never graduated college. I dropped out my sophomore year to start MercyMe 21 years ago. Part of the reason was I felt like I was treading water.
The song ‘Even If’ is incredibly special to me.
Let me put it this way, if you were drowning, you wouldn’t really be in a place to lend a hand as far as being rescued. You’d be at the mercy of the lifeguard. Once pulled out, you may be a little out of it, not sure where you are, but safe nonetheless.
A Little Hope’ is a song we wrote a couple of years ago and hated the thought of it not getting at least a little attention. It’s a song that just makes you smile.
My dad was a monster and I realized if the gospel could change that dude, the gospel can change anybody.
If you go to a Christmas concert, you take your wife on a nice evening, people are dressed up a little bit more, and it’s definitely a sit-down event.
What I view as worship now is certainly a little different than how I used to view worship. I don’t see it as a verse in a chorus, on a big screen with words, like I used to. It’s just trying to be as real as possible in front of an audience.
