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Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Joel Osteen

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Joel Osteen
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 5
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Houston
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Joel Scott Osteen
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Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.
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There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.
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You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.
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See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.
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Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.
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You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.
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Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.
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God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.
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When you get knocked down, don't stay down get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.
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You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.
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I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.
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I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!
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If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
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You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions you were created to be really alive.
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Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.
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You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.
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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.
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Believe that God is in control. There is no need to be stressed out or worried
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I don't go down the road of condemning.
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