“Being positive does not mean we deny the existence of difficulty; it means we believe God is greater than our difficulties. Believing in God can cause us to win any battle we face.
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Joyce Meyer
“The only thing that truly satisfies the longing within is to know God more intimately today than we did yesterday.”
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Joyce Meyer
“They are ALWAYS happy and don’t even have to make an effort to be this way. What is their secret? Why them and not me? I used to wonder. Some people are born with a temperament that makes it easy for them to look on the bright side, but even they have to make choices about their thoughts and attitudes toward life. Any person, no matter how naturally inclined they are toward good moods, can have sour, negative thoughts if they don’t choose differently. Your mind, mouth, moods, and attitudes are all intricately connected. First you think, and then your thoughts turn into words that you speak,
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Joyce Meyer
“Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word makes it glad. PROVERBS 12:25”
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Joyce Meyer
“As we leave this chapter, choose a habit you want to form and begin putting these principles into practice. Be patient with yourself. It takes time to create habits, and you may not succeed every day. If you realize you have failed, don’t waste time being discouraged; just pick up where you left off and begin again. Be kind to yourself, because beating yourself up for every mistake is another bad habit that needs to be broken.”
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Joyce Meyer
“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
“You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)”
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Joyce Meyer
“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.”
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Joyce Meyer
“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”
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Joyce Meyer
“That is exactly why we must keep a right heart attitude if we want God to continue to use us. There is a great responsibility to leadership. There is moreto ministry than just standing up in front of people and exercising spiritual gifts. Our lives must be right behind the scenes. We must always be on our guard against presumption
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Joyce Meyer
“need of encouragement, look to God first. He will never tell you that you’re not going to make it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised. HEBREWS 10:36”
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Joyce Meyer
“Whatever we gain by the works of our own flesh, we will have to maintain the same way we gained it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If you are ever going to develop the potential God has put in you, you must make up your mind that you are not going to quit, no matter what, until you see manifested what God has placed within you.”
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Joyce Meyer
