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" If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God. "
Joel Osteen
God
Yourself
You
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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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" On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home. "
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" A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. "
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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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" Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. "
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" I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. "
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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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" You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church. "
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" Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass. "
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" People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. "
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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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Never
Away
" I think Bible principles are principles for life. "
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" I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do. "
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You
" Do all you can to make your dreams come true. "
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Your Dreams
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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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" 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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Friends
Fun
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" God's desire is that we excel. "
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God
Desire
" I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it. "
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" If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again. "
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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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Loved
Service
" You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself. "
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" When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me. "
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" See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say. "
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" It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt. "
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" Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better. "
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" We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us. "
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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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" Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. "
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" I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message. "
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