Joyce Meyer Quotes

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Those who turn away from Islam, and obey non-Muslims in some things, have been seduced by Satan….Don't obey disbelievers.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don't live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.

There's not a Christian out there who hasn't struggled with wanting to break a rule or having broken a rule over and over again.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

God's desire is that we excel.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.