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Joel Osteen Quotes - Page 20

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You may think you’re getting the short end of the stick, but when it’s all said and done, God will make sure that you don’t lose anything truly valuable. Moreover, He’ll make sure you get your just reward. Your

You may think you’re getting the short end of the stick, but when it’s all said and done, God will make sure that you don’t lose anything truly valuable. Moreover, He’ll make sure you get your just reward. Your responsibility is to remain calm and peaceable even when those around you are not.

Responsibility, Thinking, Done

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

Blessing, Creative, Negative

Twitter post from Jan 18, 2012

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

Criticize, Highest, Ifs

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Money, Destiny, Want

"The prosperity gospel" by Cathleen Falsani, www.washingtonpost.com.

When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Hurt, Blessed, Blessing

I do think that religion has turned a lot of people off. Part of it is because it was all about the rules and was political. I think now people have a hunger for God, they want to have a relationship, but they don't want to be called religious. I'm not trying to get them to join my religion, I'm just trying to plant a seed of hope in their heart.

Religious, Heart, Thinking

"Joel Osteen Talks Pope, Gays And Why You Should ‘Pray For Big Things’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

Inspirational, Dark, Rude

When you smile and project an aura of warmth, kindness, and friendliness, you will attract warms, kindness, and friendliness. Happy people will be drawn to you.

Smile, Kindness, People

We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

Forgiveness, Wall, Heart

I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Prayer, Pain, Long

The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

Love, People, Healthy

Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Everyday, Trying, Principles

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

Father, Night, Editing

"Joel Osteen — Always Taking The High Road". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Heart, Years, Medicine

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Honest, Kind, Enough

Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.

Jesus, Attitude

"Your Best Life Now". Book by Joel Osteen, 2004.

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

Dream, Greatness, Destiny

Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Moving On, Thinking, Perspective

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Christian, Jesus, Believe

"Interview: Joel Osteen on Prosperity Gospel, Crystal Cathedral, and Jesus". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 29, 2012.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

Inspirational, Miracle, Inspire

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

Inspirational, Eye, Students

"Your Best Life Now". Book by Joel Osteen, abcnews.go.com. 2004.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

Inspirational, Life, Future

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Umpires, Judging, Heaven

"Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

Jesus, Believe, Simple

"The Osteens on the Power of Positive Believing". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.

Bad Day, People, Giving

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