“being a garbage dump for other people does not promote peace for me, and I want peace more than I want to know what is going on in everyone else’s life.”
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Joyce Meyer
“When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” —Unknown I”
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Joyce Meyer
“For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. —EPHESIANS 6:12”
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Joyce Meyer
“The people who are happy are the ones who decide to be happy.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Staying angry at someone who has hurt you is like taking poison hoping that your enemy will die.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.
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Joyce Meyer
“No, world! You are not going to do this to me any longer. I am not going to live on this crazy merry-go-round with no way off of it. I know what I am supposed to do, and I am going to do it. If you don't like it, talk to God. He is the One Who put this vision in me, and I am not going to frustrate myself all my life just to please you.”
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Joyce Meyer
“God says clearly that vengeance is His, and our position is to be one of faith in Him, waiting patiently and lovingly as He works justice in our lives. When”
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Joyce Meyer
“Here the Lord is saying to us, “If any of you is fainthearted, you will not be able to stand against the enemy.” A fainthearted person cannot take much. He has to have everything a certain way or he gives up and quits. He gets discouraged and depressed quickly. He gets his feelings hurt easily. Everything bothers him. He is touchy. If that describes you, I want you to know that you don't have to stay that way. The power of God is available to you to break that fainthearted spirit off your life.
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Joyce Meyer
“Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“What imagined deficiency or handicap in your life is holding you back?”
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Joyce Meyer
“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I’m not where I used to be.”
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Joyce Meyer
