Joel Osteen Quotes
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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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We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
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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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Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.
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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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Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
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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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A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
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I don't go down the road of condemning.
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I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.
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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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We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.
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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'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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I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
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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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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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My message is that God is a good God.
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I don't have all the answers.
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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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I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
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See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.
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We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.
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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.