Joyce Meyer Quotes

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

I believe in second chances and I have strong faith in God that he forgives our sins.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.