Joyce Meyer Quotes

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

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

Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make 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.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

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

Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

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.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

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

God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.

Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

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

You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good!

Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

We often say God is never late, but generally He isn’t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

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

Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!

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

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

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

If I'm a blessing to you, then either God will put it on your heart to bless me, or he'll use somebody else to bless me. If I'm friendly with you, then I'll have friends. If I'm merciful with people, the Bible says I'll get mercy back. If I'm not judgmental, then people won't be judgmental with me. And it works also with finances. If you give to help other hurting people and you give to the preaching of the gospel, because you love God, then God takes care of you.

It`s important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.

In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.