Joyce Meyer Quotes

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“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.”

“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!”

“Seek His face and not His hand.”

“Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!”

“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”

“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.”

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

“Unity increases power.”

“Where the mind goes the man follows.”

“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.”

“We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.”

“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!”

“1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.”

“If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.”

“The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.”

“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.”

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”

“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have”

“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.”

“Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.”

“The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.”

“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.”

“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”

“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”

“God is Good… Jesus is Lord
Be Good to Yourself and each Other
J-Jesus.. O-Others.. Y-Yourself”

“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”

“God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness.”

“If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”

“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”

“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.”

“Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!”

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”

“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.”

“Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid”

“Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do”

“All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.”

“The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.”

“When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.”

“If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.”

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

“Were all important in god's eyes.”

“(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.”

“The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.”

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

“The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.”

“When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.”

“Justified means just as if you've never sinned.”

“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul.”

“If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.”