Joyce Meyer Quotes

The best way for me to put it is that if my spiritual life isn't bigger than my outside life, then I'm out of balance. I make my spiritual life a priority.

Life is about your soul, not about your body and not about your mind. Most people work hard to keep the body happy. Then they seek to stimulate their mind. Then... if there is time... they look after their soul. Yet the most beneficial priority has it just the other way around... When was the last time you paid attention to your soul?

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.

To know God is to be adjusted to daily living.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.