Quotes about Empowerment

God's plan for you is to move you into a position of impact by infusing you with truth and employing you in prayer. You don't need to be a genius to do it. You don't need to learn ten-dollar words and be able to spout them with theological ease. You just need to bring your honest, transparent, available—and, let's just say it—your fed-up, over-it, stepped-on-your-last-nerve self, and be ready to become fervently relentless. All in His name.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.

I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.

If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

The best way I can think of to give back is to ensure that every Hoosier family enjoys a better future.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.