C.F. Joyce Quotes

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?

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

By the light of your stars, heal me.

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.

Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

...rapid motion through space elates one.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Humble people ask for help.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

If God changes your heart, be willing to change your plans

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

Don't miss out on today by living in yesterday.

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

Do you serve God or do you serve your feelings? Believe the Word of God over and above your feelings.

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.