It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Never complain and never explain.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.