C.F. Joyce Quotes

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The best proof of love is trust.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

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.

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.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Shut your eyes and see.

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

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.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good!