There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.

We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.

You can be happy where you are.

When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.

I was reading in the Bible and one translation says that Jesus said that if you publicly will acknowledge me before people, I will acknowledge you before my Father in heaven. So that is a big part of these meetings like Night of Hope, giving people an opportunity to publicly say, "Jesus, I believe you are the messiah, you're Christ, you're my Lord."