Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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 forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.
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.
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.
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.
La musique avant toute chose.
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an interest opposed to the rights of the third. Will the latter be secure? The prudence of every man would shun the danger. The rules & forms of justice suppose & guard against it. Will two thousand in a like situation be less likely to encroach on the rights of one thousand?
You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.