C.F. Joyce Quotes

Teenagers are people too!

We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Having everything your way is highly overrated.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

God is Good...Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself

Seek His face and not His hand.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.

Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I miss You? He answered simply, "Joyce, don't worry; if you miss Me, I will find you.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

We cannot know God apart from His Word.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.

Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.

Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

I like to work and am a focused person.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

I’m living now in my reward.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

God can't drive a parked car.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream.

Trusting God brings life.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.