C.F. Joyce Quotes

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.

When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

If you want a testimony, you are going to have a test.

Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.

Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.

You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

Passion is a decision about how we will approach life, before it becomes a feeling!

Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.

Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you.

I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.