Joyce Rupp Quotes

#1. I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

Joyce Rupp

#2. Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today - knowing there's a garden of beauty that awaits me.

Joyce Rupp

#3. God of peace,
you are at the center of my life,
a strong refuge of peace
in the whirlwind of my pain.
I look to you for strength
and a constant assurance of hope.

Joyce Rupp

#4. I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

Joyce Rupp

#5. No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

Joyce Rupp

#6. Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

Joyce Rupp

#7. By the light of your stars, heal me.

Joyce Rupp

#8. If I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

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#9. People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

Joyce Rupp