Paula White Quotes

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

There must be a reason that these bad things happen to me. I must be dysfunctional. So why would my dad leave? Why would he kill himself? Why would I be violated? And when you're 6-years-old, you can't comprehend that. But as you get much older in life, you begin to think what's wrong with me?

Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.

I said God, I want to spend the rest of my life helping people, and felt a real call through a divine moment, an encounter with God. I went to my pastor and said I have a call of God to preach. He put a broom in my hand, and I began to sweep the church.

For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

A spirit is a great definition for me.

I believe the bible helps yourself.

I came to let you know, God is not going to his authenticity be destroyed.

I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.

Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready!

I've also found thousands that have reached out to me in a way that maybe they never did. And it's broadened the ministry in other ways that people now relate.

I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White].

God has hooked me up.He has the life by design.

It was a moment [when I had found God] that so transformed my life. And I say this is so corny, but it was like the grass was green, the sky was blue. And I can't begin to articulate - as much as they say I'm a wordsmith - what really happened.

Satisfaction comes from the inside out, so people keep gravitating from things externally to try to fill something - get a man to complete them, get money to complete them, get a job to complete them and still find themselves frustrated.

When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.

Let's say financially. Financially, I personally believe that you should have enough to do the assignment that you feel is part of your life. And whatever that is to do, you're going to need.

I stay in my lane of assignment and do what I'm supposed to do in life.

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!

I mean everyone is going to have an opinion. But the fact is, is many people have been critical or judgmental, which is almost a double whammy, as if the pain of going through a divorce is not enough, then to have what you want - embrace and support.

I'm comfortable around just about everyone.

My faith graduated to a place called trust, that I know ultimately - ultimately, that God has good things for me.

By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!

I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.

My definition of prosperity would be quite different than what most people probably imagine or think, because I think that a wholeness word that means nothing missing, nothing broken. It's not finances or materialism.

Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.

"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

I've stood in a place to always be a bridge between different people and bring together people for the common cause of Christ.

I can begin to give God attributes. He's a counselor. He's a healer. He's a friend that sits closer than a brother. To me, he just - I sum it up that he's my anchor, my rock, my foundation in life, that my life was - had an emptiness - a deep, dark void with something - it had a lot of fulfillment externally, but something inside said there's more.

I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.

I believe that prosperity has a purpose.

I have nothing to be sorry about.

I did it through our ministries. We had ordination and basically understanding there ought - to be ordained that God has set apart, for the purposes of ministry. This is an important thing because of that defining moment, when I held that word up, I said I want to spend the rest of my life helping people.