“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.”

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.

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.

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?

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

O God, how lovely still is life!

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.