It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.

Today let me reassure you, God knows right where you are and He knows how to get you to where you need to be. Even when things don’t go the way you planned, His hand is on you.

The pressure you are facing is not going to break you. It's going to make you.

You wouldn't go very long without eating food; don't let your spirit starve either. Feed on the Word of God every day.

As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

The people closest to you need to hear your words of encouragement the most!

One of the first choices we make every day is your attitude. Wake up and put on an attitude of thanksgiving!

When life feels like a yoyo, no matter the ups or the downs know that you'll always end up in the hands of Almighty God.

Childbirth is nothing. Death is mighty. The 0 to our 1. There is nothing in the world like it. But there is nothing in it that is not like the world.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.

It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

As long as she wants me, I’m here.

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.