“You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.”
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Joel Osteen
“Don't think small when you pray. God has a way to bring your dreams to pass if you'll dare to be bold enough to ask.”
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Joel Osteen
“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. JOHN 14:27 NASB”
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Joel Osteen
“Sometimes you may have to trade places with someone who is hurting.”
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Joel Osteen
“Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.”
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Joel Osteen
“(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember)
Crows can’t hang with eagles.”
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Joel Osteen
“Develop the habit of getting daily direction from God...When you do, He will lead you down the best path for your life.”
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Joel Osteen
“God never promised that we wouldn’t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, ‘Be truly glad!...these trials are only to test your faith, to see whether or not it is strong and pure…’ so if your faith remains strong after being tried in the test tube of fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of His return.”
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Joel Osteen
“Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do.”
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Joel Osteen
“I can do all things through Christ. I am strong in the Lord.”
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Joel Osteen
“You’ve got to listen to what God’s telling you and not to what other people may tell you. People will try to talk you out of the dream in your heart.”
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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
“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..”
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Joel Osteen
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. COLOSSIANS 3:15”
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Joel Osteen
