Joel Osteen Quotes
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The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
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I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
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Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
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Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
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I really believed that fear is contagious.
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Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
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I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
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We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
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It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
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The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
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I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.
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Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
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It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
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It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
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My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
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A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
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Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.
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I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.
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You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.
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A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
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On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
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Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
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When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.
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Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.