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" There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation. "

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" Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes. "

" When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually. "

" I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be. "

" I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself. "

" The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny. "

" And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations. "

" We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive. "

" Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. "

" It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do. "

" I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody. "

" If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues. "

" We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. "

" But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies. "

" I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. "

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

" As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me. "

" I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack. "

" I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. "

" I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. "

" There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. "

" When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church. "

" I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me. "

" We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development. "

" I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers. "

" I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own. "

" I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives. "

" One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people. "

" I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that. "

" My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open. "