A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

— Joyce Meyer

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

— Joyce Meyer

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!

— Joyce Meyer

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

— Joyce Meyer

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.

— Joyce Meyer

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

— Joyce Meyer

Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference(a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. (Colossians 3:13)

— Joyce Meyer

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

— Joyce Meyer

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

— Joyce Meyer

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

— Joyce Meyer