Della Reese Quotes (41 Quotes)


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

    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.

    She was a personal friend of God. He was in the house all the time. She'd say, 'Father, we've got to go cook now.' Jesus was a regular part of the family, too.

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

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


    I mean there are people that never have a conversation with anybody but the checker at the supermarket or the person at the cleaners.

    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.

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

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

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

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

    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.

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

    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.

    But when you really trust in God, you have a courage. You see it coming, you meet it, and you keep on trucking

    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.

    People keep asking me - people on the street approach me about Touched by an Angel.

    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.

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

    It's very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they don't often coincide.

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

    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.

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

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

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

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

    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.

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

    I also work with the spirituality of people.

    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.


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

    I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

    One of the things I learned from Mahalia Jackson was how to communicate with people through song, ... The communication begins inside of you, then it is brought out to the people.

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

    Touching people is very rewarding to me.

    What was so upsetting was I didn't really know anything about diabetes except that Ella Fitzgerald lost her legs and later died from it.

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

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

    I know one thing - it's cheaper to make Joan of Arcadia.

    I work with things that have to do with high blood pressure and diabetic conditions.


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