Quotes from Michelle McKinney Hammond

So learn how much you're worth to God. Revel in that information and then walk in it.

So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive!

Do not assume a role you have not been given. In other words, don't do the things a wife does until you are a wife. Be a friend until he carries you over the threshold.

I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.

Don't let the pressures around you make you settle for anything less than God's will for your life.

Embrace life for all its worth. Drink in God's wisdom, and savor all the experiences He offers you.

While you wait for your godly man, you should maintain the posture of a well-kept woman [...] The person should add to, not take away from, your life. You maintain who you are and allow God to be picky for you.

patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.

God knows both your name and address. When the right man comes along God will lead him to your door. And that man will recognize your name.

A man who really wants you will do whatever he must to possess your love. So set a standard.

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

How would you score yourself on a scale from one to ten, with one being in great shape, in the following areas?     ââ'¬Â¢ spiritually    ____     ââ'¬Â¢ emotionally ____     ââ'¬Â¢ physically   ____     ââ'¬Â¢ financially   ____     ââ'¬Â¢ relationally ____

Unforgiveness is a prison. It slams the door on new beginnings and entrenches you in your present pain. It chains the heart and stops it from beating. It suffocates joy and paralyzes your ability to move on. Unforgiveness is the cancer of the soul. It slowly eats away the marrow of your existence and impairs your judgment, your personality and your ability to love again.

He uses every experience to perfect us into greater vessels bearing fruit for his glory.

Do something every day to change your attitude—instead of trying to think your way into right acting, act your way into right thinking. Act the person you want to be, and gradually that's the person you will become.

So often women enter into love covenants with those who come disguised as Mr. Right. Like the men of Israel who never took the time to look beyond the surface, some women hear words and romantic gestures and take them at face value, without inquiring of the Lord.

You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.

lack of affirmation from the men in our lives can make us die inside quietly, unable to feel, to respond, to even voice our pain.

You are priceless— fearfully and wonderfully made. God shaped and modeled you in your mother's womb. God created you in his own image. You were created, redeemed, and are deeply loved and valued by God. Therefore, the man who wants to be involved with you should have to count the cost.

Sin is when you aim for the mark (righteousness) and miss it; transgression is when you acknowledge the mark but choose to do your own thing anyway.

God's questions are often designed not to extract answers but to provoke thought.

Jesus tells us in Luke 14:28 that before we undertake anything we should count the cost. Usually price is advertised, but cost is hidden.

being involved with you requires a high cost, you will be able to sift the wrong people out of your life.

when love is real, the cost doesn't seem high. A man who really wants you will do whatever he must to possess your love. So set a standard.