We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

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.

Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!

You're going to have to open your eyes.

You can easily tell he's a newlywed because he's still smiling at his mother-in-law.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

My diet is much better. I eat what I have to. The older you get, the better you get at making sacrifices.