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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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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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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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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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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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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The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
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Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
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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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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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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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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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I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.
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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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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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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 don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.
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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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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
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I think the word rich is all relative.