Quotes about Empowerment

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

Don't be afraid to be afraid.

You matter. You are. Be.

The more limited our language is, the more limited we are; the more limited the literature we give to our children, the more limited their capacity to respond, and therefore, in their turn, to create. The more our vocabulary is controlled, the less we will be able to think for ourselves. We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think.

You're going to have to do something about yourself. Nobody can do it tor you.