C.F. Joyce Quotes

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.

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

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

New level, New devil.

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

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

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.

It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

The quiet people just do their work.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else.

If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

The Word of God is different than other words because God's Word is stuffed full of power and anointing.

An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.