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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When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
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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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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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The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'
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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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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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God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
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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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Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.
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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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If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
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The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
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God's desire is that we excel.
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I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
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The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.
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We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.
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When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He's the Christ, raised from the dead, that He's his savior - that's good enough for me.
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This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.
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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 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'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.