“A story is told of a Quaker man who knew how to live independently as the valued person God had created Him to be. One night as he was walking down the street with a friend he stopped at a newsstand to purchase an evening paper. The storekeeper was very sour, rude, and unfriendly. The Quaker man treated him with respect and was quite kind in his dealing with him. He paid for his paper, and he and his friend continued to walk down the street. The friend said to the Quaker, “How could you be so cordial to him with the terrible way he was treating you?” The Quaker man replied, “Oh, he is always that way; why should I let him determine how I am going to act?”
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Joyce Meyer
“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”
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Joyce Meyer
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that “if a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”
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Joyce Meyer
“God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Take responsibility for your anger and learn to deal with it—process it and bring closure to it, and that will relieve the pressure.”
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Joyce Meyer
“I will say positive, hopeful things no matter how I feel.”
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Joyce Meyer
“If we are trusting God to bless us through those who are in authority over us, yet we aren't praying for them - it's as if we're not praying for ourselves.”
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Joyce Meyer
“Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. PROVERBS 3:5”
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Joyce Meyer
“Jesus had much to say to the Pharisees of His day. They had a polished performance, kept the laws, followed all the rules and regulations, and were proud of it. They also had a judgmental attitude toward others, did not walk in love, and showed no mercy. Jesus called them whitewashed tombs full of dead men’s bones (Matthew 23:27).”
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Joyce Meyer
“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.”
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Joyce Meyer
“When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake!”
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Joyce Meyer
“No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.”
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Joyce Meyer
