Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

If you could dream about anything you want, what would it be?

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."