“The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.”
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Joyce Meyer
“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Take responsibility for your anger and learn to deal with it—process it and bring closure to it, and that will relieve the pressure.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I know the effect insecurity can have on lives because I experienced it myself. I know what it does to a person. Those who have been hurt badly through abuse or severe rejection, as I have, often seek the approval of others to try to overcome their feelings of rejection and low self-esteem. They suffer from those feelings and use the addiction of approval to try to remove the pain. They are miserable if anyone seems to not approve of them in any way or for any reason and they are anxious about the disapproval until they feel they are once again accepted. They may do almost anything to gain the approval they feel they have lost—even things their conscience tells them are wrong. For example, if a person is met with disapproval when she declines an invitation, she might change her plans and accept the invitation just to gain approval. She compromises herself for the sake of feeling approved
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Joyce Meyer
“Enjoying life begins with enjoying yourself. You’re the one person you’re never going to get away from, so you’d better learn to like yourself. It’s impossible to love your life if you don’t love yourself.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
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Joyce Meyer
“The person who forgives is always greater than the one who is jealous and angry.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Oh, yes, we all want to help others reach their full potential, especially our children and grandchildren. But the bottom line is that none of us can do that for someone else, and no one else can do it for us. We must each do it for ourselves. We must each discover our own God-given gifts and talents, what we are truly capable of, and then put ourselves to the task of developing those gifts, talents and capabilities to their fullest extent.”
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Joyce Meyer
“But the meek (in the end) shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace” (Ps. 37:11).”
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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
“Greedy people ask, ask, ask, and rarely ever appreciate what they have already received. I do not believe that God will release us into the fullness of all that He has planned for us until we become thankful for what we have already been given.”
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Joyce Meyer
“We must remember that people are not our source
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Joyce Meyer
“Pray for your enemies, and bless those who mistreat you” (see Matt. 5:44).”
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Joyce Meyer
