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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. "
Joel Osteen
Day
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" See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future. "
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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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" Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks. "
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" Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass. "
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" We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore. "
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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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" 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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" I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. "
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" God's desire is that we excel. "
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" 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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" I think Bible principles are principles for life. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation. "
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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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