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Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " Whatever people think of us is between them and God and not our concern. "

― Joyce Meyer , Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " 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

7 " 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

8 " 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

9 " 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

10 " 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

11 " 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

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " 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

16 " 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

17 " 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

18 " 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. Look "

― Joyce Meyer , Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

19 " 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. Whatever "

― Joyce Meyer , Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

20 " I know the effect insecurity can have on lives because I experienced it myself. I know what it does to a person. Those who have been hurt badly through abuse or severe rejection, as I have, often seek the approval of others to try to overcome their feelings of rejection and low self-esteem. They suffer from those feelings and use the addiction of approval to try to remove the pain. They are miserable if anyone seems to not approve of them in any way or for any reason and they are anxious about the disapproval until they feel they are once again accepted. They may do almost anything to gain the approval they feel they have lost—even things their conscience tells them are wrong. For example, if a person is met with disapproval when she declines an invitation, she might change her plans and accept the invitation just to gain approval. She compromises herself for the sake of feeling approved. An "

― Joyce Meyer , Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone