Carolyn Dickson > Carolyn's Quotes

“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

“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
― Joyce Meyers, Woman to Woman: Candid Conversations from Me to You

“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.”
― Joyce Meyer (Author)

“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

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

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

“Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”
― 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

“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
― Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
― Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

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

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

“God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.”
― Joyce Meyer, Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

“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

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

“You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both”
― Joyce Meyer

“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.”
― 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

“Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.”
― Joyce Meyer

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

“Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.”
― Joyce Meyer

“You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)”
― Joyce Meyer

“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.”
― Joyce Meyer

“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.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”
― Joyce Meyer

“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.”
― Joyce Meyer, Me and My Big Mouth!