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" I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. "

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" I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well. "

" I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement. "

" To me, we're marketing hope. "

" When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life. "

" 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. "

" I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen. "

" Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ. "

" If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again. "

" Prospering just doesn't have to do with money. "

" I don't have all the answers. "

" Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof. "

" On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home. "

" I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.' "

" Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. "

" Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. "

" To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger. "

" 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. "

" I don't go down the road of condemning. "

" 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. "

" I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father. "

" There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers. "

" I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message. "

" I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction. "