Paula White

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Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.
- Paula White
Collection: Garden
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I believe the bible helps yourself.
- Paula White
Collection: Believe
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When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve?
- Paula White
Collection: Loss
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What I might have considered good, good doesn't mean every day is going to be perfect, you're not going to have bad breath, your hair is going to be in the perfect place.
- Paula White
Collection: Mean
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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.
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Collection: Focus
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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.
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Collection: People
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It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.
- Paula White
Collection: College
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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].
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Collection: Country
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A spirit is a great definition for me.
- Paula White
Collection: Definitions
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We had a church together. We co-founded and co-pastored the ministry, but Randy [White] was really a strong part.
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Collection: Strong
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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.
- Paula White
Collection: Believe
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This is the best message that I have been responsibly for it. This will help you, A, find your identity. Because you can never overcome life issues. You'll never overcome your condition without knowing your position. So identity. Significance comes out of identity, meaning life's purpose, your why in life. But the great thing is this book ['You are all that'] is so practical.
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Collection: Book
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I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.
- Paula White
Collection: People
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There are many different ways that people get licensed or ordained through different ministries, denominations, etc. So - but for myself, there was no formal seminary.
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Collection: People
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There are crucial things that cause fractures, breaks, whatever in relationships. But no one throws a life away.
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Collection: Causes
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I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.
- Paula White
Collection: Proud
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I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.
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Collection: Biblical
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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?
- Paula White
Collection: Dad
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To say you're going to wiggle your nose and that is going to happen, it won't happen. If you look at major companies who are doing wonderful things, wonderful things and they give their portfolio billions of dollars that they make and they give away $10 million or so, when you start putting the percentages there, what we are doing is significant.
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Collection: Giving
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One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.
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Collection: Girl
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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.
- Paula White
Collection: Believe
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I'm comfortable around just about everyone.
- Paula White
Collection: Comfortable
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We have full disclosure in transparency of our audited, our financial audits. It's on our Web site. It is, I think 16 or 20- something pages, which most public companies or private companies and most ministries don't disclose. So we have always operated with financial integrity and full transparency.
- Paula White
Collection: Integrity
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I now have a greater compassion than I have ever had before to know what it is to have the pain of a broken marriage. And I'm not saying I have an answer or solution for everyone.
- Paula White
Collection: Pain
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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.
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Collection: Uncles
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I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with tooth fairy and Santa Claus.
- Paula White
Collection: Jesus
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When I say you don't have to be a believer, you just have to say - you have to ask the question to say am I concerned about the tough questions in life, being introspective enough to say, who am I, why am I, what am I?
- Paula White
Collection: Tough Questions
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God has hooked me up.He has the life by design.
- Paula White
Collection: Design
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I don't sit down and say, boy, I'm thinking about getting a great deal of money or I'm not going to have any money.
- Paula White
Collection: Boys
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I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.
- Paula White
Collection: Personal Opinions
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There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.
- Paula White
Collection: Book
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Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.
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Collection: New York
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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.
- Paula White
Collection: Pain
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When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by this time I'm an over achiever, a pretty good student, etc. And he said I have the answer to your problems. I have the solution to your pain. And he held up this book. It's a bible. I didn't know what it was.
- Paula White
Collection: Uncles
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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.
- Paula White
Collection: Father
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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.
- Paula White
Collection: Divorce
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When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.
- Paula White
Collection: Abuse