Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

You must pursue your dreams with all your might.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.