joyce-meyer Quotes About trying

“People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“You can become so manipulated and controlled by what you think other people expect you to do that you literally live under the tyranny of other people's expectations. And what I call the shoulds and the oughts. I believe that hundreds of thousands of people miss their God-ordained destiny and they never really feel satisfied, content and fulfilled, because they're so busy trying to keep everybody else satisfied with them that they don't ever get around to doing what they really want to do.”

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“When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.”

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“God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.”

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Book:Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

“If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.”

“Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.”

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“Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.”

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“People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.”

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“It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.”

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Author: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.”

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“If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.”

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“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”

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“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.”

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

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying”

“Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you'll have. Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure everything out, and let God be God in your life.”

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“We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.”

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Book:Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God

Source: Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God

“We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!”

“I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.”

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“Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.”

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Book:Approval Addiction

Source: Approval Addiction

“Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

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