Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

Always evaluate and determine the product of your life

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers

Look around you… There! Yes, there!! There's what you need to succeed.

The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To learn/grow from these experiences, you must accept the role you played in each of them.

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.