“FCA is a place where young people, many of whom are unchurched, can come and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man’s foundation.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable.

Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.

God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.