Lisa Gremore > Lisa's Quotes

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

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

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

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

“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)

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

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

“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

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

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

“Where the mind goes the man follows.”
― Joyce Meyer

“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.”
― Joyce Meyer

“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.”
― Joyce Meyer

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

“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.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Don't let your feelings be a God to you.”
― Joyce Meyer

“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy”
― Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford, Any Minute

“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Hm-m," he said. "Lookie, Ma. I been all day an' all night hidin' alone. Guess who I been thinkin' about? Casy! He talked a lot. Used ta bother me. But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember-all of it. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he didn' have no soul that was his'n. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole. Funny how I remember. Didn't even think I was listenin'. But I know now a fella ain't no good alone.”
― John Steinbeck

“The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Whenever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there . . . . I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'-I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build-why, I'll be there." Tom Joad”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Puts a weight on ya. Goin' out lookin' for somepin you know you ain't gonna find.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I ain't sayin' I'm like Jesus," the preacher went on. "But I got tired like Him, an' I got mixed up like Him, an' I went into the wilderness like Him, without no campin' stuff. Nighttime I'd lay on my back an' look up at the stars; morning I'd set an' watch the sun come up; midday I'd look out from a hill at the rollin' dry country; evenin' I'd foller the sun down. Sometimes I'd pray like I always done. On'y I couldn' figure out what I was prayin' to or for. There was the hills, an' there was me, an' we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. An' that one thing was holy...An' I got thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'. I got thinkin' how we was holy when we was one thing, and' mankin' was holy when it was one thing. An' it on'y got unholy when mis'able little fella got the bit in his teeth an' run off his own way, kickin' and draggin' and fightin'. Fella like that bust the holiness. But when they're all workin' together, no one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang -- that's right, that's holy. An' then I got to thinkin' I don't even know what I mean by holy...I can't say no grace like I use' ta say. I'm glad of the holiness of breakfast. I'm glad there's love here. That's all.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year