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" I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality. "
Joel Osteen
Easy
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" You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal... God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of. "
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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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" I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical. "
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" I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. "
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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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" I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything. "
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" Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you. "
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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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God
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" I think Bible principles are principles for life. "
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Life
" 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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" This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. "
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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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" The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. "
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" I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it. "
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" I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith. "
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" My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow. "
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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 don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college. "
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" I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled. "
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" I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life. "
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" I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money. "
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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 like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. "
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Enjoy
" I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up. "
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" You have enough people against you... be for yourself. "
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" Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved. "
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