C.F. Joyce Quotes

Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

We often say God is never late, but generally He isn’t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Love me. Love my umbrella.

In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.

It's important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

Love loves to love love.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!

Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.

Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

You can still die when the sun is shining.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

Thought is the thought of thought.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

The power of God is available to you today to help you do whatever you need to do and with a smile on your face!

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.