Joyce Meyer Quotes

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

God will not forgive us if we fail.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.