Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

Don’t be overwhelmed . . . take it one day and one prayer at a time.

The truth is you always grow to love the people you pray for. That’s because you develop God’s heart of love for them.

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.

Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.

People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.

Prisoner of Her Own Captivity

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

AOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Web. We don't get no respect.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.