Joyce Meyer, born on June 4, 1943, is an American author, speaker, and television personality known for her Christian teachings. Raised in a troubled home, Meyer experienced personal hardships before dedicating her life to Christianity. In 1985, she founded Joyce Meyer Ministries to share her faith through conferences, books, and a television show, “Enjoying Everyday Life.” Her teachings emphasize practical applications of biblical principles to overcome challenges. Meyer’s straightforward and relatable style has gained her a global following. She is a bestselling author with numerous books on self-help and Christian living. Beyond her ministry, Meyer is involved in philanthropy, supporting various causes through her organization. With a vast outreach, Joyce Meyer has become a prominent figure in the evangelical Christian community.
Joyce Meyer Quotes
1. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
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2. “Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
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3. “You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
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4. “Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.”
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5. “Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It’s called purpose. You’re alive for a reason. Don’t give up.”
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6. “Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!”
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7. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”
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8. “When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
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9. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
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10. “If you don’t love yourself, it’s impossible for you to love others. You can’t give away what you don’t have.”
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11. “In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.”
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12. “I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.”
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13. “Excellence is going the extra mile.”
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14. “Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.”
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15. “Just because you feel fear doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Do it afraid.”
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16. “Don’t be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.”
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17. “Life is not fair; God is.”
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18. “Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don’t live in a perfect world.”
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19. “Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.”
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20. “The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you’ll have. Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure everything out, and let God be God in your life.”
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21. “If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.”
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22. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
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23. “We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.”
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24. “If we do our best, God will do the rest.”
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25. “Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.”
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26. “If God changes your heart, be willing to change your plans.”
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27. “Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.”
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28. “Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.”
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29. “Today is a brand new beginning for me!”
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30. “Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.”
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31. “I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”
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32. “Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have.”
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33. “Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.”
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34. “You’re not free unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.”
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35. “God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!”
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36. “God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.”
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37. “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.”
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38. “We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence.”
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39. “Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”
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40. “Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!”
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41. “Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.”
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42. “Just because you go to church doesn’t mean you’re a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn’t make me a car.”
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43. “God is working on your problem. Stay calm. Stay sweet. Stay out of fear and keep on keeping on.”
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44. “Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.”
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45. “I want to focus on God’s grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don’t want to focus on what I don’t have.”
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46. “If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.”
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47. “New level, New devil.”
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48. “We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.”
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49. “Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.”
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50. “When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.”
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51. “Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.”
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52. “You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today.”
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53. “Don’t depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.”
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54. “Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can’t do.”
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55. “You don’t need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow.”
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56. “Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.”
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57. “You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can’t be both.”
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58. “We worship God with our entire life – with every decision we make and everything we do.”
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59. “Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”
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60. “Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.”
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61. “An affirmation to say every day: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Every day I get better and better in every way.”
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62. “Don’t mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.”
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63. “Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you’re going.”
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64. “Don’t give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.”
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65. “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.”
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66. “Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.”
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67. “You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new.”
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68. “You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.”
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69. “Any day that we don’t give up puts us one day closer to success!”
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70. “You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.”
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71. “Stop labeling people just because they’re not like you.”
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72. “You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.”
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73. “God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.”
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74. “Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.”
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75. “My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”
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76. “God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten.”
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77. “It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.”
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78. “Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.”
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79. “Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.”
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80. “Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.”
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81. “Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart, and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.”
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82. “Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”
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83. “God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.”
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84. “Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.”
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85. “Everyone knows how to smile. It’s one of the greatest gifts God has given us. A smile makes people feel good, and people look so beautiful when they smile.”
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86. “Pray about everything and worry about nothing. You will enjoy life much more.”
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87. “Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.”
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88. “If you can’t learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we’ll always have problems.”
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89. “Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!”
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90. “The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.”
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91. “Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.”
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92. “The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.”
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93. “Do what’s right, first. Don’t sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.”
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94. “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.”
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95. “Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He’s calling us to do.”
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96. “Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
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97. “You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go.”
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98. “God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn’t always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.”
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99. “Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.”
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100. “Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on.”
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101. “The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!”
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102. “Anything that God wants you to have, there’s no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won’t quit and give up.”
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103. “A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don’t change it, you won’t go anywhere.”
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104. “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.”
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105. “Five minutes of communication can save a year’s worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.”
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106. “Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.”
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107. “Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.”
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108. “Attitude is your thought life turned inside out.”
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109. “You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don’t quit!”
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110. “Don’t try to change people. It won’t work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!”
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111. “Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.”
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112. “Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.”
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113. “Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.”
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114. “I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.”
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115. “The words you say could hurt or help you. “Change Your Words, Change Your Life””
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116. “Where the mind goes, the man follows.”
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117. “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.”
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118. “Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.”
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119. “Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over.”
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120. “Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it’s okay.”
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121. “If you will do what you CAN do, God will do what you CANNOT do.”
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122. “Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
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123. “If you can’t control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.”
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124. “You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle.”
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125. “As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.”
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126. “The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.”
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127. “When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.”
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128. “Don’t build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon.”
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129. “Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen.”
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130. “The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!”
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131. “Don’t waste your time being upset about something you can’t change. Begin again and do it better this time.”
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132. “Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.”
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133. “Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”
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134. “You’re worth something because God says you’re worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.”
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135. “If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.”
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136. “Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don’t give in to fear, do it afraid.”
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137. “If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It’s difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.”
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138. “I make mistakes every day. I’m not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that’s what God is after, a heart that wants to be.”
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139. “One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.”
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140. “God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.”
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141. “Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.”
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142. “We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.”
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143. “Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.”
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144. “As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.”
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145. “Your word is your honor. If you say you’re going to do something, then you need to do it.”
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146. “Humble people ask for help.”
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147. “When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter.”
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148. “Don’t do what’s right to get something. Do the right thing because it’s the right thing.”
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149. “Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!”
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150. “Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.”
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151. “Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what’s right. Every time you do what’s right when you don’t feel like it, you are growing.”
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152. “We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.”
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153. “One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.”
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154. “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!”
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155. “When you need to make a decision, don’t let your emotions vote.”
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156. “The truth is God created us to have a 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.”
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157. “Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.”
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158. “We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulations. That’s why we have the gift of faith.”
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159. “When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.”
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160. “It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it – leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.”
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161. “When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else.”
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162. “Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.”
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163. “Don’t just learn from God’s Word, but believe it will change your life.”
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164. “There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.”
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165. “Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.”
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166. “There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.”
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167. “We almost always see only what’s wrong with other people and not what’s wrong with us.”
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168. “Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.”
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169. “Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.”
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170. “Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential – potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can’t, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!”
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171. “Don’t let your feelings be a God to you.”
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172. “Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do.”
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173. “Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I’ll tell you what you’ll get TRIALS!”
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174. “The one thing everybody’s looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are.”
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175. “Faith means that you have peace even when you don’t have all the answers.”
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176. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”
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177. “Hope is a favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.”
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178. “Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!”
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179. “No matter what you’re going through there’s no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.”
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180. “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.”
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181. “Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.”
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182. “Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don’t have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.”
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183. “Love gives life purpose and meaning.”
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184. “Discipline enables you to think first and act second.”
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185. “Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do.”
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186. “God cares about everything that concerns you, so feel free to talk to Him about anything.”
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187. “There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”
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188. “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. PROVERBS 23:7.”
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189. “Trusting God brings life.”
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190. “We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.”
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191. “Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.”
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192. “Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”
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193. “God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you.”
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194. “To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.”
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195. “People can’t see what’s in your heart – they can only see what you do.”
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196. “Don’t be too concerned about what others think of you. It’s what you think about yourself that matters!”
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197. “Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”
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198. “If you can help a child, you don’t have to spend years repairing an adult.”
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199. “Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.”
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200. “What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.”
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