My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

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

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.