“You don’t have to say everything to say something.”

God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we’re dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we’ve made the wrong plans.

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

You haven’t been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk, When I go to the East Coast, people automatically know I’m not from there.