Joyce Meyer Quotes

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Stay calm and aggressive.

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

As a human being, it's in your nature, when somebody says something about you negatively, to defend yourself and lash back. That's what we all have to learn not to do. You have to forgive a person. And when you forgive a person, you have to forgive yourself.

I don't let other people get under my skin.

Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.