Joyce Meyer Quotes

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.