Della Reese Quotes

#1. My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

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#2. My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

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#3. I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.

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#4. I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

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#5. I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

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#6. If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.

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#7. So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

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#8. You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

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#9. It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

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#10. I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

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#11. You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

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#12. I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

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#13. I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.

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#14. I'm an honest hoe, and all my hoes is honest.

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#15. They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

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#16. We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.

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#17. It's not the load you carry but how you carry it.

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#18. I also work with the spirituality of people.

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#19. People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them.

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#20. Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.

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#21. So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

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#22. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

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#23. Touching people is very rewarding to me.

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#24. Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

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#25. I like to sing very much.

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#26. I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

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#27. My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.

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#28. I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.

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#29. When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

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#30. There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

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#31. So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.

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#32. Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

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#33. We want to be a place where, and when there's no place else, you can turn us on and know that He's there, He cares, and He's going to do something about it.

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#34. Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

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#35. The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.

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#36. Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

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#37. I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

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