“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful; we take for granted what God has done for us. We let what once was a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to goodness, it becomes routine; it doesn’t really excite us anymore.”
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Joel Osteen
“Don’t talk about the size of your problem. Talk about the size of your God.”
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Joel Osteen
“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”
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Joel Osteen
“One touch of His (God’s) favor can put you fifty years ahead of where you thought you’d be.”
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Joel Osteen
“When negative thoughts come, the key is to never verbalize them.”
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Joel Osteen
“Don’t be determined to never have problems. Be determined to stay full of joy in the midst of your problems.”
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Joel Osteen
“Too often we talk ourselves out of God’s best. We allow doubts, fears, and discouraging things people have said to limit us and convince us to settle where we are. Negative voices always speak the loudest.”
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Joel Osteen
“will build you up, people who will celebrate your victories, not people who will criticize and be jealous any time you succeed.”
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Joel Osteen
“Don’t get upset. Just keep being your best each day.”
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Joel Osteen
“If what others say doesn’t match what God has put in your heart, let it go in one ear and out the other.”
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Joel Osteen
“God, You said Your favor is not for a season but for a lifetime.”
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Joel Osteen
“I believe that those who stay in faith are highly favored. You need to prepare for an exceeding, abundant, above-and-beyond life; a life where people go out of their way for no reason to be good to you; a life where you get promoted even though you weren’t the most qualified; a life where you find yourself in the right place at the right time.”
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Joel Osteen
“Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.”
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Joel Osteen
“We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.”
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Joel Osteen
“God, this is for me today. I’m raising my expectations. I’m shaking off doubt, negativity, disappointments, self-pity, little dreams, and little goals, and God, I will make room for a flood of Your goodness.”
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Joel Osteen
