C.F. Joyce Quotes

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.

There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!

God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.

If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

God is not there just for emergencies.

Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.

I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others.

I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.

Everything doesn't have to feel good to be God

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe.

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Justified means just as if you've never sinned.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!

My hope is that God will have changed people's lives through me for the better.

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

God is not obligated to anoint what He does not initiate.

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.