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> [If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/if-i-try-to-understand-what-it-means-to-be-a-christian-i-look-at-the/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

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## More by Bruce Cockburn

> [It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/it-sounds-strange-to-say-it-but-you-can-be-in-a-war-zone-and-have-a/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/i-d-always-loved-poetry-and-i-d-always-loved-writing-music-and/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/my-models-for-graceful-aging-are-guys-like-john-lee-hooker-and/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> ['Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/gifts-was-just-a-short-little-one-verse-song-that-i-used-to-close/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/music-itself-isn-t-enough-to-completely-wear-down-my-stash-of-anger/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/in-between-effect-and-cause-and-just-beyond-the-range-of-normal-sight/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/when-you-know-even-for-a-moment-that-it-s-your-time-then-you-can-walk/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/a-number-of-iraqis-told-us-they-had-welcomed-the-u-s-forces-as/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/the-people-who-have-impressed-me-most-and-the-closest-i-ve-come-to/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/sometimes-i-catch-myself-doing-something-that-i-ve-already-done-the/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/anger-is-energy-and-you-ve-got-to-find-a-place-to-put-it-that-works/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/wave-the-flag-wave-the-bible-wave-your-sex-or-your-business-degree/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [“Got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/got-to-kick-at-the-darkness-till-it-bleeds-daylight/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/all-these-years-of-thinking-ending-up-like-this-in-front-of-all-this/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

> [Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cockburn/everybody-wants-to-see-justice-done-to-somebody-else/)

[Bruce Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cockburn/)

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