C.F. Joyce Quotes

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

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

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

God doesn't always give us a blueprint for our lives, but he always gives us a next step.

I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!

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

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

In the particular is contained the universal.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new.

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it.

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

New level, New devil.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!