Martin Smith > Quotes

“Space is as important as content, and silence as important as singing. Our music and art should be filled with more beauty, more grace, and definitely more space. In the layer beneath the text God speaks to us; in the silence we hear God’s heartbeat;”
― Martin Smith, Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers

“Unity transcends time, style, and numbers. When people hold hands across their own theologies, that unity can bring down the modern-day walls of Jericho.”
― Martin Smith, Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers

“Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God to become real and tangible to us,”
― Martin Smith, Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers

“We’ve become too song focused, and in truth I believe that we need to be more worship focused. We’ve lost the ability to push aside the songs and replace them with twenty-five minutes of crying out, opening our hearts and heads with the raw worship of God who’s within us.”
― Martin Smith, Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers

“At times the Christian scene is more dangerous. Sometimes, we have this Disneyland existence where we all have to pretend to be squeaky clean, yet reality’s not like that. Sometimes things are happening in secret that are not healthy: alcohol problems, pornography, people travelling too much or getting into trouble, but it all gets covered up even though it exists, behind closed doors with the “Do Not Disturb” signs dangling on the outside. If I was hanging out at a mainstream party, I might not agree with what a certain singer of a certain secular band was up to, but at least what you saw was what you got. This sort of honesty was endearing.”
― Martin Smith, Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers

“Today there are some worship artists doing well, but when you buy their latest album you don’t expect any difference from the previous three. This doesn’t seem to do justice to the awesome creative power of almighty God. Serving up the same old, same old is never on the menu for God.”
― Martin Smith, Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers