1. On struggling with being a “people pleaser:”  “God didn’t create you to keep everybody happy.” 
  2. On enduring hard times: “You have to endure to earn the right to be respected and tough enough to stand.” 
  3. On expressing love for someone: “You can’t feel love that doesn’t reach you. So, even though I have it for you, if I don’t give it to you, you can’t enjoy it or benefit from it and you might starve to death for the lack of what I thought, but didn’t say.” 
  4. On what it means when your faith is being tested: “When your faith is the strongest, you come up under the greatest attack.” 
  5. On feeling stuck: “Maybe you don’t need a new situation, maybe you need a new perspective.” 
  6. On finding yourself in the middle of a mess: “The mess is part of the process that leads to progress.”
  7. On walking in your purpose: “Don’t let your pain distract you form the purpose God has on your life.” 
  8. On what men really think about women: “You would be surprised the good things we guys think about you women that we don’t tell you.” 
  9. On how to regain your focus: “Start deleting distractions so you can focus.” 
  10. On moving on from a trying time in your life: “You have to maximize where you are WHILE you deal with where you were.” 
  11. On the power of your passion: “When the passion on the inside becomes greater than the obstacle on the outside, you will always win!” 
  12. “A setback is a setup for a comeback” 
  1. “Each day is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.”
  2. “When God has a plan for your life, I don’t care how much you murmur and complain and kick and fuss and scream and yell. When you know that God has a plan for your life, He got you tied up… I serve a God who will tie you up when you’re acting crazy, tie you up, while you’re trying to do your own thing, tie you up while your temper is raging, tie you up, when your ambition is out of control. Sometimes, God will tie you up til the time is right. Nothing will work, your money won’t work, your career won’t work, the boyfriend will leave, the house will sell, cause when God has you tied up, He’s not gonna let you get away. He’ll say, Be still and see the salvation of the Lord.”
  3. “Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.”
  4. “We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.”
  5. “As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I’m convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds–or our palms!–and that is why we have tongues to speak.”
  6. “Silence isn’t golden and it surely doesn’t mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.”
  7. “God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.”
  8. “Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.”
  9. “You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart”
  10. “Let It Go!!”
  11. “To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!!
  12. “What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?”
  13. “My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, “Things that are covered don’t heal well.” Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.”
  14. “Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.”
  15. “When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.”
  16. “A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
  17. “You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look”
  18. “If you don’t invest in you, you’ll soon find that no one else will, either.” 
  19. “Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you’re attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There’s no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity.”
  20. “Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard nor respect for them as people.”
  21. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
  22. “Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.” 
  23. “Destiny will always make someone angry, but better that person be angry with you than for you to be angry with you. I guarantee you will end up an angry person the day you awaken spiritually and realize that you’ve adhered to everyone’s priorities except your own.”
  24. “Share your dream with people who want you to succeed.” 
  25. “If you stick your head in the sand and ignore things that you have the power to change, you can’t blame anyone when they don’t turn out right!”
  26. “Listen, God can’t bless what you won’t do. You haven’t been taught correctly. Prosperity doesn’t just come from giving an offering. It’s good to be a giver. But you must also be a thinker, a planner, and a worker.”
  27. “Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.”
  28. “When you live your own dream, you don’t have time to be a hater.”
  29. “If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.”
  30. “Regardless of the obstacle in your life, there is a wind from God that can bring you out. Let the wind of the Lord blow down every spirit of fear and heaviness that would cause you to give up on what God has promised you.”
  31. “Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?”
  32. “The Hell of Regret:  He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can’t come back, because caged lions don’t mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.”
  33. “God will not let your needs and wants go unattended, especially when you desire to be more like Him.”
  34. “One cannot have an enriched marriage when it is funded by an emotionally and spiritually bankrupt man.”
  35. “Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.”
  36. “It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!”
  37. “Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people’s refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.”
  38. “Need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. Having had unique opportunities to sit at the table”