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.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

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.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

Call me any name you like I will never deny it.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.

And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup