Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Joyce MeyerRead
The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
Interpretation
Prayer can guide us to make better decisions in our relationships.
Joyce Meyer emphasizes the importance of seeking divine guidance through prayer, particularly in the context of our relationships. She suggests that asking God for wisdom and discernment can help us avoid unnecessary challenges and enhance our interactions with others, thereby saving us time and trouble in interpersonal dynamics.
In practice
During a sermon about making important decisions, a pastor might use this quote to encourage prayerful reflection.
Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.
Muslims should live like brothers.
There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever youβre with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.
I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.
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