C.F. Joyce Quotes

Everything you do is a seed that you sow. Seed bad, harvest bad. Seed good, harvest good. And the list goes on and on.

A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.

Faith is a decision we make about where we are going to put our trust.

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

Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen.

If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.

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

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

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

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

Nothing ever happened except God.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.

Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

Trust means we always have questions that we don't have the answers to.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

God is working on your problem. Stay calm. Stay sweet. Stay out of fear and keep on keeping on.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.