As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

American politics is always an open competition.

I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours

I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.

When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.

A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.