Joel Osteen Quotes
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I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
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My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
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If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?
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The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
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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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Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.
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When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
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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 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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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 are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.
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You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
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Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.
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I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
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Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.
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I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
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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 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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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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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.
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I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.
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I have always believed in God.