Joyce Meyer Quotes

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

I hate nobody.

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

A true man hates no one.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.

The hardest thing to do when people are hurting you is to remain a decent person.

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'