Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.

People may break your heart and drive you crazily. God is the only dependable person you should rely on.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.

It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.