These quotes provide advice and encouragement on various topics related to faith, character, and overcoming challenges. Some key themes are: having courage through faith in God; choosing positive change over remaining the same; basing one's worth on God rather than people; and finding strength and purpose through spending time with God.

1. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the
corner.”
“Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by
what the Word of God (scriptures)says.”
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”
“God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch
you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out
to your good in the end.”
“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”
“Have God make a message out of your mess.”
“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy,
not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”
“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”
“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”
“Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.”
“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”

2. “Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the
garage all day and it doesn't make me a car”
“80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.”
“Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”
“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”
“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”
“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”
“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be
sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your
schedule around Him.”
“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
“An affirmation to say everyday:
The healing power of God is working in me right now. Every day I get better and
better in every way.”
“Don't let your feelings be a God to you.”
“Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will
always be in great supply!”
“you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to.
You better start loving the one you got. Embrace the life you have and stop wishing
that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do
what you want to do with me".”
“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”
“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”

3. “Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day
and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.”
“If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict
you.”
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”
“Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”
“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to
build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to
"kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.”
“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”
“Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.”
“You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both”
“Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our
feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”
“Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.”
“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”
“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy”
“Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to
the flesh, we say no to the devil.”
“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in
Jesus Christ.”
“We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.”
“Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act
of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and
never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the
pain and begin to heal.”
“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors
“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to
stay in bondage.”
“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your
life!”
“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just
wants to help us be the best that we can be.”

4. “Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.”
“Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding.
If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in
your life.”
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
“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.”
“Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and
over and over and over.”
“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.”
“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum
potential.”
“Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.”
“Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone.
The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know
what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers”
“The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let
Him turn it into gain.”
“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while
waiting.”
Seek His face and not His hand.”
“Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then
see.”
Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are
never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it
feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using
discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your
flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.”
“You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for
the wrong reasons.)”
“If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch
of other moody and depressed people.”
“Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize
that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and
expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-

5. pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men
and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord.”
“We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence”
“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and
remaining the same.”
“Unity increases power.”
“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I
failed He kept loving me.”
“I tell you what when I see chocolate chip cookies I can’t just eat one. I’ve got to eat
a dozen. I don’t have any self control. Well, come on! You’re just talking yourself
right into the pit! You do have self control, and you need to start looking at those
cookies and saying, “If I want you I’ll eat you, and if I don’t I won’t!” Come on! Talk
to that plateful of food! I am born again and baptized in the Holy Ghost! I have the
power of the universe on the inside of me, and if I do not want to eat you I will not
eat you! I mean how do you expect to defeat the devil if you can’t even defeat a
chocolate chip cookie!?!?”
“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've
died to that thing.”
“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!”
“1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking
who he can devour.”
“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if
you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.”
“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.”
“Where the mind goes the man follows.”
“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.”
“You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can
control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house
and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get
control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.”
“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.”

6. “God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through
“cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.”
“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.”
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for
patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what
you'll get TRIALS!”
“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!”
“The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH,
there is a release.”
“God is Good...Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other
J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself”
“Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a
little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.”
“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in
and get you out.”
“Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.”
“All God wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.”
“The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.”
If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest
witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way
they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and
that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people
unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a
peace that I did not have.”
“I never will forget this. I went and threw myself across my daughter’s bed, and I
cried and I cried and I cried and I cried, because I felt like that I had been so faithful
and that there was no financial breakthrough for us. You ever have one of those days
where you are tired of hearing everybody else’s testimony? But, I made a decision
that day, and I think we all have to come to this point in many different areas of our
life. And, as I lay across that bed and cried, when I finally got done crying I said this
out loud, it was like my declaration, “God, I am going to tithe and give offerings until
the day I die whether I ever see anything from it or not!” And, you know what, from
that day forward we began to prosper and increase. And, I believe with all of my
heart that was a test for me.”
“Were all important in God's eyes.”
“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you

7. can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t
ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”
“Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!”
“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better
when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.”
“God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way
to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started
and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their
broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry
them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His
Word is the medicine for your soul.”
“Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing
good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he
had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the
needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the
stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan,
where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.”
“I know that if I said today, "How many of you would like to have me pray for you to
have self control?" I could stay here and pray for people to have self control until
midnight tonight. How many of you would stay if I would just lay hands on you and
pray for you to have self control? Well, you know what, it would be a waste of time!
Because, you are not going to have self control because somebody prays for you to
have self control. You aready have self control. It is in you as a fruit of the spirit, but
it's a little teeny tiny little seed. And, nobody else can develop your fruit of the spirit.
Nobody can develop your peace but you. Nobody can develop your joy but you.
Nobody can develop your patience butyou. Nobody can develop your discipline and
self control but you.”
“We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still
waiting on Him to do.”
“If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you
are worth loving.”
“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.”
“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get
past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”
“Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look
like and act like. But the truth is that every woman was not created by God to be
skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. Not every woman was

8. intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother,
citizen, and daughter. Single women should not be made to feel they are missing
somenthing because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel
they must have a career to be complete. We must have the freedom to be our
individual selves.”
“If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says
WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.”
“No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and
things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.”
“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”
“There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch
our our faith.”
“The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice and more practice.”
“Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they
do”
“Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid”
“The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall
myself into solitary place of confinement.”
“Justified means just as if you've never sinned.”
“When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to
say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.”
“I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and
not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because
she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to
discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a
chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.”
“(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over
somebody. Start treating him better.”
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have”
“God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for
example we have a difficult time submitting to a boss with a certain personality God
may call us to continue working with someone who has the same personality until we
master the situation in a godly way. God does not want us to be on the run He wants
us to confront our fears and frustrations in order to find peace in Him.”

9. “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.”
“Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may
direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we
may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make
logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if
it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice
or discomfort.”
“You have the fruit of the spirit in you, because when Christ comes in you everything
he is and has comes with him as a seed as a seed as a seed as a seed. If we can ever
understand this we can finally get over being confused about what the Bible says we
have compared to our experience. Everything the Bible says we have we have it. As
believers in Christ it is in us, but it comes as a SEED! The Bible actually calls Christ
THE Seed. Capital "S". So, I like to put it like this: When Christ first comes into your
life the seed of everything God is comes into your spirit. The Bible says that the
image of Christ is captured in us and that we are destined, you have a destiny, a
destiny to be molded into his image of Jesus Christ. Your destiny and my destiny is
to get out into the world and act like Jesus.”
“I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would
be concerned for me.”
“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to
do will be comfortable.”
“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with
lies.”
If you make a choice in this conference and you stick to it to be an excellent person in
everything you do and you stick to it especially to be excellent when nobody is
looking and do it not to get a result but to glorify God you’re going to have peace and
joy and you’re going to have results. My concern is that if we just do something to
get results then we’re not likely to follow things all the way through to the finish,
because we get very discouraged, and I think that’s one of the reasons we have such
discouragement among people. “Well, I’m doing this, and I expected to get a
breakthrough before now.” ….. Well, I think God has to purify our hearts and get us
to the point where we are not just doing something right just to get something!”
“You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you
don't know what that's called it's called religion. That's what it's called dead dry
religion......Jesus said you are a bunch of white washed tombs full of dead men's
bones, and I tell you if that didn't describe me I don't know what did, because on
Sunday mornings I dressed it up and took it to church.”
“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have
never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you

10. think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for
more.”
“I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I
felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was
doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that
what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice
of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling
guilty before I can be forgiven.”
“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
“If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep
tormenting you.”
“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could
not control my future unless I allowed it to.”
“When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.”
“God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of
total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace.
and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness.”
“When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the
thoughts and opinions of other people.”
“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a
cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”
“If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to
do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an
anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.”
“Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for
everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and
you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed
and afraid of your past.”
“The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.”
“Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the
decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we
are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never
lose our value in God’s eyes.”
“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see
how much good you can do.”
“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”

11. “Today is a brand new beginning for me!”
“Many people say “my life stinks”. Well, your life will stink if you spend today
thinking about tomorrow.”
I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.”
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for
greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will
grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!”
“The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is
number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.”
“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”
“We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get
discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.”
“If you accept what people call you, you will start to believe it. Find your identity in
Christ, not in what others say.”
"Forgive freely."
"God is always just."
"Trusting God brings life."
"Love is the energy of life."
"Anger is the fruit of rotten roots."
"God’s love is unconditional."
"People are born to be free; it’s a gift from God."
"Keep walking the walk one step at a time."
"Love gives life purpose and meaning."
"Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life."
"We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
"If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God."
"In other words, God is good, and He cannot be anything else."
"I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus! He has set me free!"
"Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives."
"Sometimes trials come simply to test and purify our faith."

12. "Facing temptations will either bring out the best or worst in us."
"Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it."
"Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion."
"Nobody can be set free from a problem until they’re willing to admit they have one."
"Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don’t have to stay
that way."
"negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately
destroy your life."
"God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that
point."
"Many times Christians face trials and suffering simply because we live in a world
full of sin."
"Also, forgive yourself for past sins and hurts you have caused others. You can’t pay
people back, so ask God to."
"Every day can be exciting if we see ourselves as God’s secret agents, waiting to
sprinkle a little salt on all the lives we encounter."
"Forgive God if you are angry with Him because your life didn’t turn out the way you
thought it should."
"When Satan makes you angry, remember that he's trying to keep you from
accomplishing the will of God in your life."
"Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of
love, it becomes holy."
"When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and
collecting debts."
"If we didn’t have to stand against temptation, we’d never know our own spiritual
strength."
"Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead
of the Word of God."
"I had this little recording playing in my head for years and years and years, what's
wrong with me, what's wrong with me, what's wrong with me?"
"If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time,
and you’ll eventually walk out of your messes."
"The only way to repay the devil for hurt and devastation in our personal lives is to
aggressively and vehemently do the works of Jesus."

13. "God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He
doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan."
"People are born to be free; it’s a gift from God. We’re not to be free from
responsibility, but free to be led by the Holy Spirit."
"Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God’s Word to
forgive and stay clean."
"Your fellowship with God flows freely when you’re willing to forgive, but it gets
blocked by unforgiveness."
"Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped
on your toe in the grocery store."
"Who are you helping most when you forgive the person who hurt you? Actually,
you’re helping yourself more than the other person."
"Too often we think of being tempted as being enticed to do big things like stealing,
murdering or committing adultery. But most often we’re tempted to be impatient,
stingy, jealous, greedy or any number of other things that we consider lesser sins."
"Remember, regaining your mind is a process. We all fail at one time or another. God
knows our weaknesses; that’s why He gave us 1 John 1:9. Just ask for forgiveness
and envision the blood of Jesus washing away your sin."
"Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's
Word to do what He wants you to do...even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards
are great."
"Many people ruin their health and their lives by taking the poison of bitterness,
resentment and unforgiveness. Matthew 18:23-35 tells us that if we do not forgive
people, we get turned over to the torturers."
"Even though our problems may have been brought upon us because of something
done against our will, we have no excuse for allowing the problem to persist, grow
and even take control over our entire life."
"Everywhere you look you see people searching for love…but they’re looking in the
wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they’re looking for until
they find Him."
"God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we’ll recognize when we’re being
mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not
vent our anger in an improper way."
"Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in
there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your
will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God."

14. "All I know is this works. It's not only worked for me, but I've seen it work for
literally thousands and thousands of people. I have seen the transformation on
people's faces when they receive Christ. I've seen the glory come on them, the light."
"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 also think it’s hard to hate one person but love another. It’s hard to treat anybody
right when our heart isn’t right. Even people you want to love may be suffering from
your bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness."
"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. One of the key things for people as far as joy is concerned is not living a
selfish, self-centered lifestyle where we live our lives expecting everybody else to do
something for us."
"If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of
anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your
life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself.
Until the root is removed, it’ll continue to produce one bad fruit after another."
"If I invited you to take a walk, you’d think I was crazy if I became angry after the
first few steps because we hadn’t yet arrived at our destination. We can understand
ordinary things like this, yet we have a difficult time understanding that God expects
it to take some time for us to grow spiritually."
"Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no
more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing.
Disappointment is a fact of life—one that must be dealt with."
"What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock,
you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated,
or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things."
"Everyone knows how to smile. It's one of the greatest gifts God has given us. A
smile makes people feel good, and people look so beautiful when they smile. When
the joy in your life is obvious, it rubs off on others. But when you keep God's joy
locked inside you and don't allow it to show on your face, you're depriving those
around you of a pleasant and refreshing experience."
"We don’t think there’s something wrong with one-year-old children because they
can’t walk perfectly. They fall down frequently, but we pick them up, love them,
bandage them if necessary, and keep working with them. Surely our heavenly Father
can do even more for us than we do for our children."
"Learning to change our thinking works the same way. There will be days when we
don't do everything right—days when our thinking is negative. But never stop trying.

15. God is gradually bringing us around to His way of thinking. Just don't give up!"
"Forgive God if you are angry with Him because your life didn’t turn out the way you
thought it should. God is always just. There may be things you don’t understand, but
God loves you, and people make a serious mistake when they don’t receive help from
the only One who can truly help them."
"You may even need to forgive a situation or an object—the post office, bank, a
certain store that may have cheated you, a car that always gave you trouble, etc. Get
rid of all poison that comes from bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness."
"Who are you helping most when you forgive the person who hurt you? Actually,
you’re helping yourself more than the other person. I always looked at forgiving
people who hurt me as being really hard. I thought it seemed so unfair for them to
receive forgiveness when I had gotten hurt. I got pain, and they got freedom without
having to pay for the pain they caused. Now I realize that I’m helping myself when I
choose to forgive."
"Being angry with God is quite common. People frequently ask, "If God is good, allpowerful, and full of love for us, why didn't He stop the thing that caused the pain?"
This is where Satan seeks to build a wall between God and the hurting person. He
seizes the opportunity to say, "God isn’t good, and He can’t be trusted." However, we
know according to the Word of God, the truth is not in Satan—he is a liar and the
father of lies."
"Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against
sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness. Anger sometimes serves a useful purpose, so it
isn't necessarily always a sin. Obviously, we’re going to have adverse feelings, or
God wouldn’t have needed to provide the fruit of self-control. Just being tempted to
do something is not sin. It's when you don't resist the temptation, but do it anyway,
that it becomes sin."
"Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just
too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be
determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we’re not going to quit.
When we’re bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I’ll
never give up! God’s on my side. He loves me, and He’s helping me! I’m going to
make it!"
"Everybody has to deal with anger from time to time. But what’s the best way to
handle it? To answer that question, we must first understand what anger really is.
Anger is an emotion often characterized by feelings of great displeasure, indignation,
hostility, wrath and vengeance. Many times, reacting in anger is how we express our
dissatisfaction with life. It’s defined in the Greek language as the strongest of all
passions. Anger begins with a feeling that’s often expressed in words or actions. We
feel something and it causes a reaction."
"Often we feel divided within ourselves, struggling to get finished with common life

16. and everyday business so we can return to holy things because we feel that we are
holier, or more right with God, when we are doing what we believe to be holy things.
I believe this is one of the greatest deceptions of Satan. It keeps most people in a state
of turmoil, dreading, and even despising, the tasks of common life and everyday
business. All of us must do them; it’s part of life. They can’t be avoided. So we must
have understanding about how, in reality, there’s no difference between common and
holy, except in our minds. If we’ll read the Bible properly and not be so religious in
our thinking, we’ll move into an area of freedom that will shake the gates of hell.
Satan does not want you to enjoy your life."
"Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God
and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have
to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up."
"God loves us because He wants to—it pleases Him. God loves us because it’s His
nature to love, and He will always love us. He doesn’t always love everything we do,
but He does love us. God’s love is unconditional. In fact, there’s nothing we can do to
ever escape His love. God’s love is the power that forgives our sins, heals our
emotional wounds, and mends our broken hearts."
"The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you'll
have. Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure
everything out, and let God be God in your life."
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”
“Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by
what the Word of God (scriptures)says.”
“Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.”
“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the
corner.”
“Have God make a message out of your mess.”
“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”
“Stop being tormented by everyone else’s reaction to you.”
“Don’t just learn from God’s Word, but believe it will change your life.”
“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”
“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”
“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”
“Don’t let your feelings be a God to you.”
“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don’t live in a perfect world.”
“80% of people’s problems are about how they feel about themselves.”
“Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will
always be in great supply!”

17. “God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch
you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out
to your good in the end.”
“Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”
“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”
“An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right
now. Every day I get better and better in every way.”
“Excellence – Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”
“If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict
you.”
“Everytime you feed the flesh, you strengthen it. This is good if you are trying to
build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to
“kill the flesh” is to starve it; to stop feeding it.”
“Addictions – Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”
“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”
“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”
“Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.”
“Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our
feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”
“Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.”
“Romans 6 – Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no
to the flesh, we say no to the devil.”
“We don’t want to survive. We want to be healed.”
“you have to realize that you don’t have someone else’s life and your never going to.
You better start loving the one you got. Embrace the life you have and stop wishing
that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying “God here I am. Do
what you want to do with me”.”
“Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day
and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.”
“Affirmation to say every day: The healing power of God is working in me right
now. Every day I get better and better in every way.”
“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in
Jesus Christ.”
“Just because you go to church doesn’t mean you’re a Christian. I can go sit in the
garage all day and it doesn’t make me a car”
“Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.”
“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your
life!”
“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.”
“Seek His face and not His hand.”
“You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can’t be both”

18. “Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God’s economy, we believe first and then
see.”
“Average is very acceptable in our society but I don’t think the angels are applauding.
If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in
your life.”
“Unity increases power.”
“1 Peter 5 – Be well balanced because Satan ‘roams about like a hungry lion seeking
who he can devour.”
“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just
wants to help us be the best that we can be.”