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" I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know. "
Joel Osteen
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" Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life. "
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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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" Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be. "
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" I mean we all need a second chance sometimes. "
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" Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. "
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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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" Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts. "
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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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" 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. "
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" We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views. "
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" 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. "
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