Joel Osteen Quotes
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I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
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I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.
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Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
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I don't have all the answers.
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I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
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I don't go down the road of condemning.
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If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
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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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I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me 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 message is that God is a good God.
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I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
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I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
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My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
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A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
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I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
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People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
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In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.
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To me, we're marketing hope.
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Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
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I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
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I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
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You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.