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.

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

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.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

Having something is not always better than not having it.

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

Be candid with everyone.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.