You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

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.

The common feature of most of the successful people is, their talent is flexible to suit the needs of time.

Emotions are not good, bad, right, or wrong. The first step to changing our relationship to feelings is to be curious about them and the messages they send to us.

Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.