“As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.” PeopleWorldSpiritualPovertyHeardHavensMaterialsNeededMajorsIncludingBillionsChanging My LifeMajor Change Author:David Platt
“I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like "what?" I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to raise this baby boy that I was going to be blessed with. I haven't stopped praying in years.” YearsHelpingMotherPrayerBoysHavensHugeBabyPrayingNeededDoctorsRaisesBlessedHelp MeFifteenFifteen YearsBeing BlessedGood MotherBaby BoyFifteen Years Old Author:Cathy Hughes
“I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I can remember, I also loved those books I read and the people I met in them and the worlds they opened up to me. Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.” PeopleWorldChildrenI CanBookHomeSeemsRememberHouseHavensNeededMetsRainProtectionSuspectsPermanence Author:Frederick Buechner
“When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.” PeopleWayFeelsLittlesBodyPayHavensNeededDuesFeel GoodOne WayLaughedThank GodSkinny Author:Sandra Bernhard
“Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.” ChildrenBookHouseHavensNeededRainProtectionPermanence Author:Frederick Buechner
“My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.” PeopleThinkingSelfHardPoorAttentionImagineHavensNeededHappeningsEmpoweredPoor Self Image Author:Annie Sprinkle
“I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.” IfsShowsTogetherAsksActingMorningWiseHavensNeededCircumstancesSurpriseExcitedAsk MeViewersCostumesSurprise Me Author:Gabriel Mann
“I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and asked him to come in and audition. We went in and auditioned - he needed someone to read with him. I read with him, and she said, "Well, why don't both of you come back in the fall."” YearsWellsLongSaidFallSawsHavensNeededMarriedTheaterTheatreLocalsSeniorAuditionsModelingJaneSenior YearTaggedNeeded Someone Author:Susan Sarandon
“Many times we ask people to march outwardly, when we haven't yet spent the needed time inwardly.” PeopleAsksHavensNeededMarch Author:John C. Maxwell
“I think [there's] the opportunity for - I almost said President Clinton, and soon I will - but for Hillary Clinton to address that, and for the public sphere to address that in a way that they haven't. We started a conversation in the last few years on race that we desperately needed to have.” ThinkingWayYearsSaidLastsOpportunityPresidentRaceHavensNeededConversationClintonAddressesSpheresPresident Clinton Author:Joss Whedon