Leslie Shepard

“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.”
― Joyce Meyer, The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

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