“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.” 

“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.” 

“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy” 

“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.” 

“Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.” 

“Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.” 

“Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.” 

“Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord.” 

“Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious..

Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.” 

“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.” 

“We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.” 

“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.” 

“Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!!”

“I tell you what when I see chocolate chip cookies I can’t just eat one. I’ve got to eat a dozen. I don’t have any self control. Well, come on! You’re just talking yourself right into the pit! You do have self control, and you need to start looking at those cookies and saying, “If I want you I’ll eat you, and if I don’t I won’t!” Come on! Talk to that plateful of food! I am born again and baptized in the Holy Ghost! I have the power of the universe on the inside of me, and if I do not want to eat you I will not eat you! I mean how do you expect to defeat the devil if you can’t even defeat a chocolate chip cookie!?!?” 

“Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.” 

“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.” 

“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!” 

“Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.” 

“The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.” 

“Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.” 

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

“Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every woman was not created by God to be skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. Not every woman was intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother, citizen, and daughter. Single women should not be made to feel they are missing somenthing because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete. We must have the freedom to be our individual selves.” 

“If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.” 

“No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.” 

“We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence” 

“Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.” 

“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.” 

“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.” 

“You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.” 

“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.” 

“You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)” 

“There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.” 

“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.” 

“Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.” 

“Be it unto you, even as you believe.

In God's economy, we believe first and then see.” 

“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!” 

“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.” 

“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.” 

“Seek His face and not His hand.” 

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.” 

“God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.” 

“Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!” 

“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.” 

“Where the mind goes the man follows.” 

“Unity increases power.” 

“We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.” 

“I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.” 

“God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.”