Joyce Meyer Quotes

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

As always, I am receptive to whatever doors God may open.

God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.