I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.
The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray.
Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.
When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.
Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.
You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.
People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies. " And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.
What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.