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.Collection: Garden
I believe the bible helps yourself.Collection: Believe
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?Collection: Loss
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Focus
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.Collection: People
It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.Collection: College
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].Collection: Country
A spirit is a great definition for me.Collection: Definitions
We had a church together. We co-founded and co-pastored the ministry, but Randy [White] was really a strong part.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Book
I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.Collection: People
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.Collection: People
There are crucial things that cause fractures, breaks, whatever in relationships. But no one throws a life away.Collection: Causes
I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.Collection: Proud
I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.Collection: Biblical
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?Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Believe
I'm comfortable around just about everyone.Collection: Comfortable
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.Collection: Integrity
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Uncles
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.Collection: Jesus
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?Collection: Tough Questions
God has hooked me up.He has the life by design.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Boys
I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.Collection: Personal Opinions
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.Collection: Book
Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.Collection: New York
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Uncles
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.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Divorce
When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.Collection: Abuse