C.F. Joyce Quotes

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

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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

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.

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.

Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

All complaining comes from pride.

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

Tenors get women by the score.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.