I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!