Joel Osteen Quotes
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
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There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.
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If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
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When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
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God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
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The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'
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Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.
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I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
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It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
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The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
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The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.
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If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
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Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.
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I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.
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I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
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I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
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God wants to bless us where we are.
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When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.
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I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.
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I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.
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Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.
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I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
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Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
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My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.