Joyce Meyer Quotes

“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”

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

“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

“Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.”

“Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.”

“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”

“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”

“God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.”

“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.”

“Don't let your feelings be a God to you.”

“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”

“Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.”

“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”

“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.”

“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”

“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”

“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.”

“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”

“If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.”

“You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both”

“Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”

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

“Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.”

“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.”

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”

“Have God make a message out of your mess.”

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

“Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”

“Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.”

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”

“An affirmation to say everyday:

The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.”

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

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”

“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”

“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”

“Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!”

“God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.”

“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”

“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”

“Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.”

“Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”

“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”

“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy”

“Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.”

“Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.”

“We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.”

“Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious..

Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.”

“Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers”

“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.”

“The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.”

“Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.”

“The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.”

“If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.”

“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.”

“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.”

“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.”

“You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)”

“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.”

“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.”

“Be it unto you, even as you believe.

In God's economy, we believe first and then see.”

“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.”