Joyce Meyer Quotes

My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

I have to be honest with myself, and make sure I am doing things the right way.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity; so far as it exists, it is binding, so as on no account to be neglected.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

I have a very strong connection with my master, Daisaku Ikeda. I know his principles, I know his values, and I stick to them - that is the most important thing to me.