“Faith doesn’t always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.”
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Joel Osteen
“When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you’re allowing that person to control you.”
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Joel Osteen
“Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.”
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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
“Don't compare yourself. Celebrate yourself.”
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Joel Osteen
“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” Joy is an emotion, and yet it creates something physical. It creates strength.”
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Joel Osteen
“I DECLARE breakthroughs are coming in my life, sudden bursts of God’s goodness. Not a trickle. Not a stream. But a flood of God’s power. A flood of healing. A flood of wisdom. A flood of favor. I am a breakthrough person and I choose to live breakthrough minded. I am expecting God to overwhelm me with His goodness and amaze me with His favor. This is my declaration.”
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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
“(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember)
Crows can’t hang with eagles.”
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Joel Osteen
“You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”
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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
“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
“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, I’m not going to look at what I don’t have. I’m looking unto you. I know in my weakness, you show up the strongest.”
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Joel Osteen
“Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living”
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Joel Osteen
