C.F. Joyce Quotes

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

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.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

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.

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.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

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.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

God cares about everything that concerns you, so feel free to talk to Him about anything.

If we do our best, God will do the rest.

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.

If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.

Through my obedience to God, He has been able to use my life to help others. It's been a great journey and I'm looking forward to all the things God has in the future.

Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.

So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life.

God is good, and He cannot be anything else.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

The right timing is not always our timing.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

Were all important in god's eyes.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.