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My arms are too short to box with God.

Johnny Cash

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.
JOHNNY CASH

Appearance Black God Home Hypocrisy Ideas Mindset Myself People Rebel Status
People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.
JOHNNY CASH

Country Establishment Myself Normal People Wild
They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.
JOHNNY CASH

Bad Darkness Dog Home Place Powerful Time Way
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.
JOHNNY CASH

Children Hard Inspirational Music Myself Time
If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
JOHNNY CASH

Emotion Feeling Self Love Voice Yourself
Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
JOHNNY CASH

Burn Fire Love
Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
JOHNNY CASH

Lesson Voice Way
The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
JOHNNY CASH

Battle Darkness Life Myself Right
There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.
JOHNNY CASH

Big Deep Myself Reality Sin Spiritual
When you sing, you pray twice.
JOHNNY CASH

Prayer Sing Yourself
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
JOHNNY CASH

Children Goodness Man Mom Myself Shoot Son
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
JOHNNY CASH

Book Excitement Learning Myself Novel Reading Study
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
JOHNNY CASH

God Inspirational Life Love Motivational Reason Way
I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
JOHNNY CASH

Believe God Myself Power Spiritual
If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
JOHNNY CASH

Change Friendship Lose Need Old Yourself
The more I learn, the more excited I get.
JOHNNY CASH

Excitement Learning Myself

My arms are too short to box with God.

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