If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you've been given.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

You cannot have victory without conflict.

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.

I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.

Nobody wants somebody who wants them for what they have or the position their in- you want somebody who wants you for you. In case it all goes crazy and it all turns to dust. I want somebody who loves me in the welfare line, eating gumbo, eating fish,black eyed peas and rice. I want somebody that loves me. God wants you to love him, not his cars, not his house, not his blessing- love him.

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire -- you've got to go through the flood -- you've got to go through the test -- you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.

If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude.