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" As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word. "

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" I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God. "

Joyce Meyer

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" When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing. "

" When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.' "

" Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way. "

" I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way. "

" It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire. "

" All of our problems start in our minds. "

" Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!' "

" I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody. "

" Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it. "

" Life isn't fair, but God is. "

" Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private. "

" Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside. "

" Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. "

" I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them. "

Joyce Meyer

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" Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do. "

" There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people. "

" In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful. "

" I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with. "

" A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.' "

" If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! "

" We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today. "

" Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other. "

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

" Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies. "

" At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates. "

" I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers. "

" Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy. "

" When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit. "

" Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life. "