Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

Don't ever say anything negative about yourself.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.