Top 908 Quotes & Sayings by Joyce Meyer - Page 3

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Humble people ask for help.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

All of our problems start in our minds.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.

Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go.

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

Life isn't fair, but God is.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.