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" When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me. "
Joel Osteen
Beat
Me
Used
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" I mean we all need a second chance sometimes. "
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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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" I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift. "
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" If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay? "
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" God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. "
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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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Mirror
Past
Today
" I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be. "
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Me
Always
" Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one. "
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Blessing
Learn
" 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. "
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God
Got
" People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude. "
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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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You
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" Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it. "
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Grow
You
Accept
" It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. "
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Will
Go
" It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message. "
Joel Osteen
Money
You
People
" 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. "
Joel Osteen
God
College
Mindset
" I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important. "
Joel Osteen
God
Trying
Think
" 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
Strong
Trying
" I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. "
Joel Osteen
Tried
Pressure
Try
" 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. "
Joel Osteen
Feel
Doing
Worry
" A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that. "
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Never
World
" 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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Loved
" 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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" 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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God
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" I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down. "
Joel Osteen
God
People
You
" Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way. "
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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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Over
Grow
" To me, we're marketing hope. "
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Me
Hope
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" 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. "
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Yourself
Brother
Day
" I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to. "
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" Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be. "
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