Joel Osteen Quotes
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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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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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You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.
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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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If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?
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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 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 do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.
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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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You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
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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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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 want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.
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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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Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
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When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.
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Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.
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A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
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I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.
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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
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I have always believed in God.
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I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
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Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.
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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.