Michael Card Quotes & Sayings

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence. — Michael Card

One of the most important lessons the Lord has taught me is that you are not your gift. That is, you are not defined by what you do or create. Jesus is a wonderful example of this. He would not allow the crowd to define Him by His considerable gifts, even though they tried to do so. Jesus always points away from Himself and His gifts and thereby wins praise for the Father. We are not our gifts. We are called to give more. Like Jesus, we are called to give ourselves. That is the real purpose behind our gifts; they are vehicles for giving the self. — Michael Card

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin. — Michael Card

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink! — Michael Card

Cool morning shadows sadly shift across the floor
Each time we say goodbye it's harder than before
Even after all the pain of parting still we find
That we must mourn the death of the dreams we leave behind
As I turn my back on all that means the most to me
The sounds and smells, the light that dances on the sea
The greatest gamble is to act on the belief
That only the slave who leaves it all is truly free
The sacrifice that we both lay before His feet
A thousand moments that belonged to us
That now will never be
By faith we hold a better dream inside our hearts
A time when our family will never have to be apart
Till then we struggle with just what it really means
And we will mourn the death of our beautiful dreams
Mourn the death of our beautiful dreams — Michael Card

You need to be confronted
By the Stranger on the shore
You need to have Him search your soul
You need to hear the call
You need to learn exactly
What it means for you to follow
You need to realize that He's asking for your all. — Michael Card

Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be. — Michael Card

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise. — Michael Card

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die. — Michael Card

But our wounds are part of who we are ... and there is nothing left to chance ... And pain's the pen that writes the songs ... That call us forth to dance — Michael Card

People who demand signs never believe them when they come. — Michael Card

Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us ... in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus. — Michael Card

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension. — Michael Card

There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be. — Michael Card

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art. — Michael Card

To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call. — Michael Card

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God. — Michael Card

But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough. — Michael Card

The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing. — Michael Card

True friends define each other. — Michael Card