When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.

God's unconditional love is a very difficult concept for people to accept because, in the world, there's always payment for everything we receive. It's just how things work here. But God is not like people!

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.