Joyce Meyer Quotes

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You’ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That’s one thing I’ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.

When I see your face, there's not a thing that I would change 'cause you're are amazing just the way you are.

You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.

Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.

There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.