Approval Addiction Quotes

“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, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Whatever people think of us is between them and God and not our concern.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“The devil delights in reminding us daily of all our mistakes from the past. On Monday he reminds us of Saturday and Sunday’s failures; on Tuesday he reminds us of sins committed on Monday, and so on. One morning I was spending my time with the Lord, thinking about my problems and all the areas in which I had failed, when suddenly the Lord spoke to my heart: “Joyce, are you going to fellowship with Me or with your problems?” It is our fellowship with God that helps and strengthens us to overcome our problems. We are strengthened through our union with Him. If we spend our time with God fellowshipping with our mistakes from yesterday, we never receive strength to overcome them today. Meditating on all of our faults and failures weakens us, but meditating on God’s grace and willingness to forgive strengthens us: For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:10-11, emphasis mine) Our”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“There are two types of approval: one is from people, and the other is from God. We want people to approve of us, but if we become addicted to their approval, if we have to have it and are ready to do whatever they demand to get it, we lose our freedom. If we trust God for approval, we are freed from the addiction of approval.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Our minds may be like some computers that can have a lifetime of wrong information stored in them.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“But don’t go on a “digging expedition.” We don’t have to try to “figure ourselves out.” The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth (See John 16:13). It is a progressive work, so be patient and let God take the lead.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“But [as for me personally] it matters very little to me that I should be put on trial by you [on this point], and that you or any other human tribunal should investigate and question and cross-question me, I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. (1 Corinthians 4:3)”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“When people want to hear yes, and you tell them no, they never like it. But those who are truly your friends will give you the freedom to make your own decisions. They”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“I strongly encourage you to be careful not to let anything become more important to you than it should be. Keep God first so He can bless you with other things you desire.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“When we don’t have anyone else, we develop a deep relationship with God that will carry us through anything life brings our way. The”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“You will notice in Scripture that Jesus never tried to defend Himself, no matter what He was accused of. Why? Because He knew the truth about Himself, and that was the important thing to Him. He was not addicted to approval from people; therefore, He was free from the tyranny of what they might think of Him or say about Him. He was satisfied by the knowledge He possessed of Himself. He did not need anyone else’s approval except His heavenly Father’s, and He knew He had that. True”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“The world is deep in debt and going deeper all the time trying to buy what God offers for free: acceptance, love, approval, worth, value, peace, joy, fulfillment! The bigger house won’t make you feel complete; you will just have more square footage to clean. The newer model car won’t do it; you will just have bigger payments. The promotion at work is not the answer; you will just have more responsibility and probably be required to work longer hours.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Live to please God, not people. You have His approval, and that is all you really need!”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“When we have been mistreated, it seems totally unfair to just forgive those who have hurt us. We feel someone needs to pay for what has happened to us. When we hurt, we want to place blame. We want justice! We need to remember God is just (See Deuteronomy 32:4). His Word promises He will eventually make everything right that is wrong, if we will only trust Him (See Isaiah 61:7-8).”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“We must learn to say no and not fear the loss of relationships. I have come to the conclusion that if I lose a relationship because I tell someone no, then I really never had a true relationship at all.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“We cannot produce something we do not have.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Every time you think anything good about anyone, verbalize it. People cannot read your mind; your thoughts have power and may affect their confidence level in a minor way, but your words can really lift them up and encourage them. All people need affirmation,”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“At times we feel we are being mean if we confront people who have problems, when in reality “tough love” is what Jesus often used to set people free. Although Jesus had compassion for hurting people, He never merely felt sorry for them.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Charles Darrow set a goal when he was in his twenties; he determined that he was going to be a millionaire. This isn’t all that unusual today, but back then, it was extremely unusual. Charles lived during the Roaring Twenties, a time when a million dollars was an enormous sum. He married a woman named Esther, promising her that one day they would be millionaires. Then tragedy struck in 1929—the Great Depression. Both Charles and Esther lost their jobs. They mortgaged their house, gave up their car, and used all their life savings. Charles was absolutely crushed. He sat around the house depressed until one day he told his wife she could leave him if she wanted to. “After all,” he said, “it’s clear that we’re never going to reach our goal.” Esther wasn’t about to leave. She told Charles they were going to reach their goal, but they would need to do something every day to keep the dream alive. What she was trying to tell Charles was this: Don’t let your dreams die just because you made a few mistakes in the past. Don’t give up just because you tried something a few times, and it didn’t seem to work. God wants you to press on past mistakes. The devil wants you to give up. Progress requires paying a price, and sometimes the price you pay for progress is just to “keep on keeping on” and saying: “I’m not going to quit until I have some kind of victory.” Don’t be the kind of person whose way of dealing with everything hard is: “I quit!” Esther Darrow told her husband: “Keep your dream alive.” Charles responded: “It’s dead. We failed. Nothing’s going to work.” But she wouldn’t listen to that kind of talk; she refused to believe it. She suggested that every night they take some time to discuss what they would do toward reaching their dream. They began doing this night after night, and soon Charles came up with an idea of creating play money. His idea was something quite appealing since money was so scarce in those days. Since they were both out of work, he and Esther had lots of time, and now they had lots of easy money to play with. So they pretended to buy things like houses, property, and buildings. Soon they turned the fantasy into a full-fledged game with board, dice, cards, little houses, hotels . . . You guessed it. It was the beginning of a game you probably have in your closet right now; it’s called Monopoly.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“A lot of people let the past dictate their future. Don’t do that! Get past your past. We all have a past, but we all have a future. The Bible teaches us in Ephesians 2:10 that we are recreated in Christ Jesus so we might do the good works He planned beforehand for us and live the good life He prearranged and made ready for us.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others. As long as we know who we are, we don’t have to be overly concerned about what others think of us. Once we know who we are and accept ourselves, we no longer have anything to prove. When we have nothing to prove we can relax and be at ease in every situation.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the 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. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, we are still priceless to Him.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“If someone has hurt me, and I am bitter about it, that person is in actuality still hurting me. Bitterness is a pain in itself. It is a negative attitude that steals joy and peace. However, if I am willing to press past the pain and make a decision to forgive, I will be free.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“There are many churches that teach doctrine, and that is good. We all need a strong foundation of good solid doctrine. But along with that doctrine, we also need to know how to live our lives. If”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“We can become so secure in Christ that as long as we know our heart is right, we know whatever people think of us is between them and God and not our concern.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“If I am doing the best I can and people don’t approve, what they think will have to be between them and God. I”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

“True freedom never comes until we fully realize that we don’t need to struggle to get from man what God freely gives us: love, acceptance, approval, security, worth, and value. The”
― Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone