Quotes from Joyce Meyer

you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you're a Christian you've got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It's no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that's going to go, 'Yeah, give me some of that?'

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

When you walk in love, you give up your right to be right.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.