Jo'ann Lopez > Jo'ann's Quotes

“You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Yesterday, I Cried

“I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?”
I will live this day as if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday’s sunrise who are no longer with the living today. I am indeed a fortunate man and today’s hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“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

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

“Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.”
― Joyce Meyer

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

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

“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”
― Joyce Meyer

“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.”
― Joyce Meyer, Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

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

“Be it unto you, even as you believe.

In God's economy, we believe first and then see.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every woman was not created by God to be skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. Not every woman was intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother, citizen, and daughter. Single women should not be made to feel they are missing somenthing because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete. We must have the freedom to be our individual selves.”
― Joyce Meyer, The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations

“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.”
― Joyce Meyer

“We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.”
― Joyce Meyer

“There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.”
― Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!”
― Joyce Meyer

“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!”
― Joyce Meyer

“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“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

“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have”
― Joyce Meyer

“God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.”
― Joyce Meyer, Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do”
― Joyce Meyer

“When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes.”
― Joyce Meyer

“I remember the woman who marched up to the front of a church where I was doing a meeting, put her hands on her hips, and she said, "I want my money back." I said, "What are you talking about?" She said, “I’ve been doing this two weeks, and it doesn’t work. I want my money back!” It was actually all that I could keep from doing to keep from laughing in her face, but she was serious. She actually was, like, giving almost to buy some kind of a new lifestyle that she wanted. Didn’t understand a thing about commitment and dedication and discipline. Two weeks! How many of you know you’re not going to throw a little money in the bucket and get your life that’s been a mess for 50 years turned around in two weeks!?!?”
― Joyce Meyer

“The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You