The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.

Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.

Keeping it real" isn't just a matter of facing up to harsh facts. It also includes opening up to the plethora of possibilities that offer us ways of impacting the world in spite of adversity.

Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.

Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth — it’s the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.

Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY.

Tens of thousands of God’s saints and sufferers through the ages have found their dark nights lightened and tortured souls strengthened because they found help from the Spirit in the Word of God.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.

I am deeply fulfilled by all that I do.

Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.