“A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.”

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.

It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.

Believe that God has heard you.

Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.

Forgiveness doesn’t make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

It’s never fun when we’re in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.

People don’t need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

Men are not our problem; it’s what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we’re valuable.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.

We’re going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

When God says go forward, don’t even think about standing still.

If we choose to be offended when we don’t get our own way, Then we’re going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, ” A merry heart does good like a medicine,” It’ll make all the difference in the world.

Sometimes life is not about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

I don’t like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

You might have failed, but you’re not a failure until you give up.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done to get it.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.