The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't.

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

Always be ready to give a good testimony for the Lord, but remember that the best testimony a Christian can have is a love for others and good work habits.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.

I'm just saying it's not time for that either. We need to focus and having Maya moon over Rafe is making everyone uncomfortable." Rafe grinned. "Doesn't bother me.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.