Joyce Meyer Quotes

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

My past made me who I am today. I can’t just pretend it never happened. But the biggest lesson I learnt from that, is that I can be an example for others who are still struggling! There’s always hope and help for everyone. I think it’s my responsibility to do that, to help. I always refer to this as the “moment of clarity”. It’s hard to explain what really happened, but it was a once in a lifetime kind of moment. I had reached my lowest point and I just knew things had to change quickly because there was just no other way, you know.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.