I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

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.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.