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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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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.
Joel Osteen
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I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
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Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
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My message is that God is a good God.
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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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I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.
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A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
Joel Osteen
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I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.
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I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
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I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
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I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.
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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.
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We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.
Joel Osteen
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I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.
Joel Osteen -
Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.
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We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.
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A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
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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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God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.
Joel Osteen
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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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People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.
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You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
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If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?
Joel Osteen