I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away.

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.

Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters!

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

I think we need to get smart enough to do what's going to help us and not just continue to do things that are going to hurt us. It's pretty easy to read something or hear about it in a message, but it's that personal application of that where it's just you, God, and your problems, that are going to give you the power to get stronger and stronger.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.