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" Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach. "
Joel Osteen
Reach
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" I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are. "
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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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" I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody. "
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" A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that. "
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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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" If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying. "
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" You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation. "
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" Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. "
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" I don't go down the road of condemning. "
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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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" Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. "
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" So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do. "
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" God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you. "
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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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" 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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" I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin. "
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" It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you. "
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" For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach. "
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