“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Words have a tremendous impact on all our lives. I know people who have lived lives of crippling insecurity because their parents spoke words of judgment, criticism, and failure to them on a regular basis.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.”
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Joyce Meyer
“and decide you really do want a hot fudge sundae! Go ahead and eat it. It is continual excess that causes trouble—not occasional liberties. God created a wide variety of foods for us to eat. Every good food God made, you can eat.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Now am I trying to win the favor of men, or of God? Do I seek to please men? If I were still seeking popularity with men, I should not be a bond servant of Christ (the Messiah). GALATIANS 1:10”
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Joyce Meyer
“Good sense makes a man restrain his anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression or an offense. PROVERBS 19:11”
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Joyce Meyer
“No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We will experience peace in our personal lives when we stop trying to do so many things ourselves and just rely on God to deliver, protect, heal, and save us, as He wants to do.”
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Joyce Meyer
“But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God). Galatians 5:16”
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Joyce Meyer
“One of the ingredients of forming good habits and breaking bad ones is focusing on what you want to do and not on what you want to stop doing.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We can say that we trust God all day long, but if we fear the unknown, then in reality, we don’t trust God.”
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Joyce Meyer
“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”
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Joyce Meyer
“The Holy Spirit knows precisely the right timing in our lives. I always say, "Only the Holy Spirit knows when you are ready for what." In other words, the Spirit of the Lord is the only One Who knows what it will take to help you, and when you are ready to receive help.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You can never make a wrong choice and get a right result.”
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Joyce Meyer
