C.F. Joyce Quotes
What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.
The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.
There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.
You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.
They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.
Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.
Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.
God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying.
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.
When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.
The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.
If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.
Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
