It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.