C.F. Joyce Quotes

Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.

You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

A good home must be made, not bought.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

Does nobody understand?

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.

If you change nothing, nothing changes.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.