Amy Grant Quotes

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

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

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.

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.

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.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

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.

I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

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

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

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

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.

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

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

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

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

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

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

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.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

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.

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

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

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

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

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 think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

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

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

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.

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

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

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.

I'm going to live what I believe

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

I need music like I need water.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

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.

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

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

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

It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground.

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

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