In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

Acting is constant exploration.

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.