Joel Osteen Quotes

There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Joel Osteen

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
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• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
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• I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

  

  W. H. Davies
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• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
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• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
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• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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  • Understand
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• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
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• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
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• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
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• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
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• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

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• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

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• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

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• We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

  

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• I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
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• Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
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• If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

  

  Jakob Bohme
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  • Children

• A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Business
  • Occupied
  • Spelling

• There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Live