Bart Millard Quotes

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Bart Millard

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 1, 1972

It's kind of scary making a faith-based film.

Bart Millard

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.

Bart Millard

Basically, there's not a single circumstance, I pray, that can derail me from what Christ is to me and who I am because of Christ.

Bart Millard

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.

Bart Millard

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.

Bart Millard

The popularity's got its pluses and minuses, and there are many days that I would rather just be a Christian and not known at all, but that's not what God has called me to do.

Bart Millard

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.

Bart Millard

The second that MercyMe stopped being my identity, instead of quitting, I started falling back in love with it.

Bart Millard

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.

Bart Millard

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

Bart Millard

After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it taught me that faith is enough, but here's three more things left just in case. There's always things left to do to be closer to God.

Bart Millard

The song 'Even If' is incredibly special to me.

Bart Millard

When I was a kid, my dad would let me stay up and watch 'Cheers' each week. Granted it's not the most 'kid friendly' show, but I could've cared less. I was getting to stay up past my bedtime!

Bart Millard

I've never met an artist who was at a certain level of spirituality offstage and then lowered it onstage.

Bart Millard