“The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? PROVERBS 20:24 NLT”
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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
“God made you as you are on purpose. He gave you your looks, your height, your skin color, your nose, your personality. Nothing about you is by accident. You didn’t get overlooked. You didn’t get left out. God calls you His masterpiece. Instead of going around feeling down on yourself, unattractive, too tall, too short, not enough of this, or too much of that, dare to get up in the morning and say, “I am a masterpiece. I am created in the image of Almighty God.”
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Joel Osteen
“Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.”
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Joel Osteen
“God accepts you. God approves you. And He has something better in store.”
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Joel Osteen
“Don’t fight change; embrace it, and you will step into the fullness of what God has in store.”
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Joel Osteen
“True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.”
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Joel Osteen
“Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.”
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Joel Osteen
“If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.”
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Joel Osteen
“John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back.” Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don’t’ live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference.”
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Joel Osteen
“You may live or work around a bunch of weeds, but don’t let that stop you from blooming. Realize that your environment does not prevent you from being happy. Some people spend all their time trying to pull up all the weeds. Meanwhile, they miss much of their lives. Don’t worry about things you can’t change. You can’t change the traffic in the morning. You can’t fix everybody at work. You can’t make all your family members serve God. But you shouldn’t let that keep you from being happy. Bloom anyway and focus on the things that you can change. You can change your own attitude. You can choose to be happy right where you are.”
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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
“We can’t stop the negative voices from speaking, but we can choose whether or not we’re going to dwell on what they say.”
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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
