Quotes from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“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.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“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.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“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.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That’s why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“The mind should be kept peaceful. As the prophet Isaiah tells us, when the mind is stayed on the right things, it will be at rest.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“We like everything instantaneous. We have the fruit of patience inside, but it is being worked to the outside. Sometimes God takes His time about bringing us our full deliverance. He uses the difficult period of waiting to stretch our faith and to let patience have her perfect work (see James 1:4 KJV). God’s timing is perfect. He is never late.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Asking for something is easy… being responsible for it is the part that develops character.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Our past may explain why we’re suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Discouragement destroys hope, so naturally the devil always tries to discourage us. Without hope we give up, which is what the devil wants us to do. The Bible repeatedly tells us not to be discouraged or dismayed. God knows that we will not come through to victory if we get discouraged, so He always encourages us as we start out on a project by saying to us, “Don’t get discouraged.” God wants us to be encouraged, not discouraged.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the Word if we are not thinking in the Word.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Remember, you become what you think. Think discouraging thoughts, and you’ll get discouraged.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them. Ezekiel 36:26,27”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“DON’T GIVE UP! When the battle seems endless and you think you’ll never make it, remember that you are reprogramming a very carnal, fleshly, worldly mind to think as God thinks. Impossible? No! Difficult? Yes! But, just think, you have God on your team. I believe He is the best “computer programmer” around. (Your mind is like a computer that has had a lifetime of garbage programmed into it.) God is working on you; at least, He is if you have invited Him to have control of your thoughts. He is reprogramming your mind. Just keep cooperating with Him—and don’t give up!”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“The mind is the leader or forerunner of all actions.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“your life will not get straightened out until your mind does.”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“Pray for your enemies, and bless those who mistreat you” (see Matt. 5:44).”
― Joyce Meyer, quote from Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

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“Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: „Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell.“ Damals schien mir das übertrieben, aber es ist bittere Wahrheit. Man hält Sie für einen Mystiker, aber in Wirklichkeit sind Sie durch und durch Realist. Wie dem auch sei, alles wird uns aufgezwungen, selbst die Hoffnung.”
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“There are many different words inside a city. The world of the rich and the world of beggars. The world of men and the world behind the veil. The worlds of Muslims and of Christians and of Jews.
If you are a rich woman living inside a harem, the world of a poor Christian beggarman is as foreign as China or Abyssinia.
All the worlds touch at the bazaar. And the other place where they touch is in stories. Shahrazad crossed borders all the time, telling tales of country women and Bedouin sheikhs, of poor fishermen and scheming sultanas, of Jewish doctors and Christian brokers, of India and China and the lands of the jinn.
If we don’t share our stories—trading them across our borders as freely as spices and ebony and silk—we will all be strangers forever.”
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It is this temperamental failure to understand Sodom in its own context, as an ancient metropolis of the Near East, as a site of sophisticated, even decadent delights and hyper-civilized beauties, that results in the commentator's inability to see the true meaning of the two crucial elements of this story: the angel's command to Lot's family not to turn and look back at the city they are fleeing, and the transformation of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt. For if you see Sodom as beautiful -which it will seem to be all the more so, no doubt, for having to be abandoned and lost forever, precisely the way in which, say, relatives who are dead are always somehow more beautiful and good than those who still live- then it seems clear that Lot and his family are commanded not to look back at it not as a punishment, but for a practical reason: because regret for what we have lost, for the pasts we have to abandon, often poisons any attempts to make a new life, which is what Lot and his family now must do, as Noah and his family once had to do, as indeed all those who survive awful annihilations must somehow do. This explanation, in turn, helps explain the form that the punishment of Lot's wife took- if indeed it was a punishment to begin with, which I personally do not believe it was, since to me it seems far more like a natural process, the inevitable outcome of her character. For those who are compelled by their natures always to be looking back at what has been, rather than forward into the future, the great danger is tears, the unstoppable weeping that the Greeks, if not the author of Genesis, knew was not only a pain but a narcotic pleasure, too: a mournful contemplation so flawless, so crystalline, that it can, in the end, immobilize you.”
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