Top 908 Quotes & Sayings by Joyce Meyer - Page 12

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

I believe that people need to get their worth and value from knowing that God loves them. I believe that all healing in our inner man and even, we know Christ also heals people's physical diseases, but the Bible says he heals our wounds and bruises. Don't worry about what's wrong with you right now, God accepts you just the way you are and he will help you be what he wants you to be.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.

Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.

Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!

God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.

God is a good choice to lean on. He has a proven record of faithfulness to those who commit their lives to Him.

You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.

The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are.

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.

God has done so much in my life, and my desire is to help others who are hurting to receive His love and get the healing they need - mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I know the Word works and total restoration is possible in Christ because I've experienced it myself.

As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.

One day, the idea that God loved me dropped from my head into my heart.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake!

We worship God with our entire life - with every decision we make and everything we do

If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you are made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Most people who go to denominational churches never ever hear that! They never hear it! Never! All I was ever taught to say was, 'I'm a poor, miserable sinner.' I am not poor, I am not miserable and I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell. That is what I was and if I still am then Jesus died in vain. Amen?

When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.

I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Attitude is your thought life turned inside out

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!

Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.

Do you serve God or do you serve your feelings? Believe the Word of God over and above your feelings.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.

We need to live the life that we say we believe in.

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Words are containers for power

Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.

You can't be pitiful AND powerful.