Trying to avoid clichés helps life become fresh again, helps us rememb — Mark Heard

"Any system of thought which allows no value to human thought will destroy its own efforts. -Fingerprint."

"It is really a kind of a slap in [Gods] face to refuse to use the abilities He gave us just because there is danger involved. Just because adultery exists is no reason to avoid marriage. Just because gluttony exists is no reason to quit eating. We shouldnt be anhedonics under the guise of spirituality. -Appalachian Melody."

"If every Christian would treat just one other person with real love, Im sure more would come to faith than do at present, with all our mass harvesting techniques. -Appalachian Melody."

"In my skeptical days, people who wanted to appear very spiritual were always telling me to forget my questions, to shove them under the rug and go on in "faith." In fact, some of my friends thought my questions were my own devices to dodge the "real issues." They thought I must be morally decadent to voice such questions. -Appalachian Melody."

"Regular life, our humanness, often gets pushed aside. -Fingerprint."

"After a ten minute prayer, the gist of which was, "Oh Lord, just sing through Mark tonight and keep him out of the picture altogether," I considered the prospect of lining up a great number of such concerts, then staying at home and sending a cardboard likeness of myself for God to sing through."