I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that because of it he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

I hope and look forward to the day that there will be a female president of the United States.

Apologies are not pass/fail.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

I have called President Obama, and President Obama called me on various issues. This is part of our regular contacts, there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about it.

Clear statement is argument.