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“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
— Joyce Meyer (I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion)

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”
— Joyce Meyer

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

“Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.”
— Joyce Meyer

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Have God make a message out of your mess.”
— Joyce Meyer

“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Stop being tormented by everyone else’s reaction to you.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Don’t just learn from God’s Word, but believe it will change your life.”
— Joyce Meyer

“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”
— Joyce Meyer

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”
— Joyce Meyer

“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Don’t let your feelings be a God to you.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don’t live in a perfect world.”
— Joyce Meyer

“80% of people’s problems are about how they feel about themselves.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!”
— Joyce Meyer

“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.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”
— Joyce Meyer

“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
— Joyce Meyer

“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”
— Joyce Meyer

“An affirmation to say everyday:  The healing power of God is working in me right now. Every day I get better and better in every way.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Excellence – Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”
— Joyce Meyer

“If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strengthen 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.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Addictions – Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”
— Joyce Meyer

“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Romans 6 – Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.”
— Joyce Meyer

“We don’t want to survive. We want to be healed.”
— 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. Embrace 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”.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.”
— Joyce Meyer

“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.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.”
— Joyce Meyer

“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”
— Joyce Meyer

“Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.”
— Joyce Meyer

“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!”
— Joyce Meyer

“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Seek His face and not His hand.”
— Joyce Meyer

“You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can’t be both”
— Joyce Meyer

“Be it unto you, even as you believe.  In God’s economy, we believe first and then see.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Average is very acceptable in our society but I don’t think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Unity increases power.”
— Joyce Meyer

“1 Peter 5 – Be well balanced because Satan ‘roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.”
— Joyce Meyer

“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.”
— Joyce Meyer