“A pretty slave is still a slave. A prisoner on a yacht is no less boun...” — Prophet Michael A Dalton Quote

“A pretty slave is still a slave. A prisoner on a yacht is no less bound than a prisoner on a slave ship. Dancing in the middle of a thunderstorm might make you happy, but you are still soaking wet. And, running naked into a blizzard might declare your independence, but it will also be the proof of your insanity and cost you most of your extremities.”

“You cannot kill giants while running from rabbits.”

“Freedom is the gift HE brought us, but to step into freedom you must recognize that those beautiful bracelets are in fact chains & that shiny, new necklace is only a painted over yoke.”

“Wisdom demands attention and faith requires time. If we choose to follow GOD but refuse to fight the fight of faith, then we abandon our own strength and pick up weakness as a shallow replacement for boldness.”

“The atmosphere ONLY responds to those who live the song and become the altar.”

“He is the light in my life and the rock beneath my feet. (Referring to the Lord Jesus)”

“How do you do it?'' one of the nicer guards asked me one day through the interpreter. ''How do you not lose your mind with loneliness? How do you starve yourself? How do you survive without wanting to die?''”

“You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.”

“Those who center their lives around the Lord are those with true purpose and direction. Their tread will always lead to a rare success that the world wants, envies but cannot have because they refuse to acknowledge what they do not understand.”

“So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)”