"If you don't have conditions on how someone is allowed to treat you, that means they can treat you any way they choose... and you will just deal with it. Without conditions, you have no *self* value... and thus, no value to others. People treat you the way you enable/allow them... if you let them choose your worth, then you are only worth something if they say so... and that doesn't work. Self worth comes from self."-Charles J. Orlando

"There's a big difference between feeling afraid and being afraid. Don't let fear control you."-Joyce Meyer

"My dumb mistakes are sometimes the best memories of how the LORD rescued me."

"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you."-Edmund Lee

"It is not now—nor will it ever be—a woman's job to "keep a man interested". It is only her job to know that she is WORTHY of interest. As a man, he needs to find his own motivations and purpose, and not demand that she DO something to validate him or keep him involved in the relationship."-Charles J. Orlando

“There's a God-shaped hole in all of us, and the restless soul is searching. There's a God-shaped hole in all of us, and it's a void only He can fill.”-Plumb

“We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it’s all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.”―Tiffanie DeBartolo

"Sometimes, for whatever reasons, we fall into "serial relationships" or "serial marriages" trying to fill needs that only God can fill. Sometimes, we fall into these things because of co-dependency, enabling, and a whole host of other behavior patterns. It is usually not until we "bottom out" and spend time alone getting healed up and whole do we ever realize how emotionally unhealthy we were."-Doris Little

"Once we become healed and whole people, it is not unusual to be quite vigilant over making sure we never find ourselves in a hard place again. And, should we find ourselves getting into a hard place, we are much more equipped to remove ourselves—and not even let our mascara run!"-Doris Little

"Are you facing mountains of pain and discouragement? Does a mass of misery threaten to bankrupt your entire investment in God? Don’t let it! It’s been powerfully said, “Stop telling God how big your mountains are, and start telling your mountains how big your God is.”"-Francis Anfuso

"Life always comes down to a show down. A standoff! Who’s going to BLINK first! If God is God then trust Him! If God is able, then believe Him!"-Francis Anfuso

"If you choose to stay with a destructive partner, then you choose the consequences of pain and suffering."-Dr. Phil McGraw