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I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

We've got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.

I've seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.

God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

When someone does not want what God has to offer, He is not going to force it on them.

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.