Joyce Meyer People Quotations

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven't had the right kind of love in their lives.

It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

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

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Everyone knows how to smile. Its one of the greatest gifts God has given us. A smile makes people feel good, and people look so beautiful when they smile.

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you are made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Most people who go to denominational churches never ever hear that! They never hear it! Never! All I was ever taught to say was, 'I'm a poor, miserable sinner.' I am not poor, I am not miserable and I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell. That is what I was and if I still am then Jesus died in vain. Amen?

Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.

I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.

God's unconditional love is a very difficult concept for people to accept because, in the world, there's always payment for everything we receive. It's just how things work here. But God is not like people!

Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

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

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.

If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

Humble people ask for help.

My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.

When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.

I think a lot of people believe that they have to be poor to serve God, that they can't have anything. They don't really even know how to give. And one of the main principles in the Bible is you'll reap what you sew, and that if you give into the lives of others, that it shall be given back to you, good measure, pressed down and shaken together. If you go plant one tomato seed, you don't get one back one tomato; you get a vine of tomatoes.

I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others.

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

God is not asking us to not have anything or even to give away every single thing that we have. He is asking us to share with people who have less than us, which I do all the time.

God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you.

People are born to be free; it's a gift from God.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

Teenagers are people too!

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

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

My hope is that God will have changed people's lives through me for the better.

Many people say “my life stinks”. Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.