C.F. Joyce Quotes

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.

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

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

Some people feed you with love.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Words are containers for power

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

All human history moves towards one great goal

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

I want to dedicate the rest of my life to spreading the love of Christ. Because God has done so much for me and has given me this platform to speak into millions of lives, I feel it is my duty...

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

Unity increases power.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.