Joyce Meyer Way Quotations

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Having everything your way is highly overrated.

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

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.

We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

If I believe the Bible, then I don't believe that a gay lifestyle or a homosexual lifestyle is the right way to choose to live. I believe that there's something so much better.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.