“God is working in the trouble. He’s working in that situation that’s difficult.”

When you bless others, God will bless you. When you show favor, favor will come to you.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

Don’t go through life trying to please everyone. If you try to keep every person happy, the one person that won’t be happy is you.

When you believe, all things are possible.

You and God are a majority. Him being for you is more powerful than the world being against you.

Let God fight your battles. Let God be your vindicator.

You have a destiny to fulfill. There’s a calling on your life, an assignment that only you can accomplish.

When you make sacrifices to help other people’s dreams come to pass, God will make sure your dream comes to pass.

You don’t have to live with regrets, thinking you missed your season. God is going to restore opportunities that you missed, restore relationships, restore the years that you lost.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, negative thoughts will set them for you.

You can’t be good to others without God being good back to you. There are blessings connected to helping others.

You can’t be passive and reach your destiny.

If you’re going to stay in faith, you have to remember what God said. Go back to His promises. Start thanking Him for what He told you. Start declaring favor, victory, healing.

When you’re tempted to get upset, remind yourself, you have the power to remain calm.

God has us in the palm of His hand.

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.