If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

It is better to be slave to the Saviour than satan.

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe

I don’t want to talk as much, ’ she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. ‘It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures.

If you can't lay an egg or milk a cow

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.