Joyce Meyer Quotes

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

Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.

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

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

Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

We cannot know God apart from His Word.

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

After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

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.

Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.

God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.

Give Him your mess and let it become your message.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

The right timing is not always our timing.

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.

You can't do BIG things when you think "little".

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.

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

On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!

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

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

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

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.

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

If you will tend to God’s business, He will tend to yours.

If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.

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

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

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

I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.

God is not asking us to not have anything or even to give away every single thing that we have. He is asking us to share with people who have less than us, which we do all the time.

Love is not talk or theory; it's action. In fact the Bible says that we cannot be walking in love if we see a brother in need, have what it takes to meet his need, and will not do anything to help him.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.

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

One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.

We open the door for God to work by placing faith in His Word, and we open the door for Satan to work by placing faith in his word. He places thought in our minds that are not true, but can become true for us if they are believed.

God is not obligated to anoint what He does not initiate.