If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't.

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

Always be ready to give a good testimony for the Lord, but remember that the best testimony a Christian can have is a love for others and good work habits.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.

The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.

Togetherness is finite. There is nothing like forever. Time ends. At different times for different people. So we should always be thankful for the time that we spent together.

Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.