Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Joyce MeyerRead
You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True faith is proven during difficult times.
This quote by Joyce Meyer emphasizes the distinction between simply proclaiming belief and truly enduring trials that challenge one's faith. It suggests that the authenticity of faith is revealed through adversity, as facing and overcoming significant hardships while maintaining belief is a true testament to one's spiritual resilience.
Themes
FaithBeliefTrialsResilienceEnduranceSpirituality
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a church sermon to encourage parishioners facing hardships.
More from Joyce Meyer
All quotes βA positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
Joyce MeyerRead
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.
Joyce MeyerRead
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.
Joyce MeyerRead
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.
Joyce MeyerRead
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.
Joyce MeyerRead
Similar quotes
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
Elisabeth ElliotRead
God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn't.
Diego MaradonaRead
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.
Pope Benedict XviRead
Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven.
Brigham YoungRead
God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
Mother TeresaRead
The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?
Neal A. MaxwellRead