“Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”
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Joel Osteen
“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
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Joel Osteen
“You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.”
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Joel Osteen
“Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big
your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!”
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Joel Osteen
“As long as you’re living in regret, focused on the negative things of the past, you won’t move ahead to the bright future God has in store. You need to let go of what didn’t work out. Let go of your hurts and pains. Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.”
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Joel Osteen
“God is a good God, and He gives good things to his children. No matter who has denigrated you or how much pain you’ve experienced in life, no matter how many setbacks you have suffered, you cannot allow yourself to accept that as the way life is supposed to be. No, God has better things in store for you. You must reprogram your mind with God’s word; change that negative, defeated self-image, and start seeing yourself as winning, coming out on top. Start seeing that marriage as restored. See your business as flourishing. See your children as enjoying the good things of God. You must see it through your eyes of faith, and then it will begin to happen.”
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Joel Osteen
“The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself.”
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Joel Osteen
“It’s so important for you to get around people who will stir up those seeds of greatness. Don’t surround yourself with naysayers. Life is too short to hang around negative, critical, cynical, skeptical, judgmental, small-minded, jealous people. . . . Did I leave out anything?”
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Joel Osteen
“The Secret “Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.”
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Joel Osteen
“Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem when all the odds were against him. Determination and persistence pulsate through your bloodline.”
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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
“You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life.”
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Joel Osteen
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Prov. 4:23 KJV).”
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Joel Osteen
“You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.”
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Joel Osteen
“If you will get free from what everyone else thinks and start being who you were created to be, you will rise to a new level.”
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Joel Osteen
