...when I prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior, I had made that promise...: 'If You'll make Your will for my clear, I'll do it no matter what!'

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.’

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

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.

What was that feeling in my chest? Regret? Regret that I'd left last night after our kiss--that I'd pulled away before he could know how much I truly wanted him.

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

Whether it's playing catch or going to the weight room, you've just got to blend in and introduce yourself as you go along.