Joyce Meyer Quotes

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Material things don't matter.

It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.