Steven Curtis Chapman quotes

If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world. (Steven Curtis Chapman)
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. View quote
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I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
Let us remember that this scene [the Nativity] represents so much more than just a touching story or a nostalgic holiday fairytale. It is, in fact, a reminder of the most amazing reality: That God came, and God spoke. Peace on earth, God is with us. And the God who spoke still speaks. And the God who came still comes. This is the true Miracle of Christmas – that as we stand here tonight in our real world with our real lives full of problems and questions, past hurts and future hopes, God is with us. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music. (Steven Curtis Chapman)
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change. View quote
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Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee. View quote
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I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places. (Steven Curtis Chapman)
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
This is life weve been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman