“The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson”
―
Joyce Meyer
“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
―
Joyce Meyer
“The best thing you can do about yesterday is to forget it. Whether you succeeded or failed, it’s over. It’s time to look ahead.”
―
Joyce Meyer
“The Bible says our warfare is with the devil, not with people (Ephesians 6:12).”
―
Joyce Meyer
“Above all that I put on, I put on love. I clothe myself with behavior marked by mercy, tender hearted pity, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of myself, gentle ways [and] patience. I have the power to endure whatever comes with good temper. I am gentle and forbearing with others and, if I have a difference or a grievance with someone; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven me, I also forgive others. —COLOSSIANS 3:12-14”
―
Joyce Meyer
“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy”
―
Joyce Meyer
“I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord. —JEREMIAH 30:17”
―
Joyce Meyer
“Mary can’t control her actions because she doesn’t control her thoughts.”
―
Joyce Meyer
“[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living! Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord. PSALM 27:13–14”
―
Joyce Meyer
“Power Thought: I trust I will see everything come to pass in my life that God has promised in His Word.”
―
Joyce Meyer
“The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.”
―
Joyce Meyer
“Hannah Whitehall Smith, the author of The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, said, “God disciplines the soul by inward exercises and outward providences.” What she means is that God will put into our hearts the right thing to do in every situation, but if we choose not to do it, then He will allow our circumstances to become our teacher.”
―
Joyce Meyer
“Please remember that you don’t have to be like someone else to be acceptable. The world’s standards are not God’s. The world may say you need to be like this person or that person, but God’s will is that you be yourself.
―
Joyce Meyer
“Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary. But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit]. 1 Corinthians 9:26,27”
―
Joyce Meyer
