C.F. Joyce Quotes

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

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

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters!

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'

Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.