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When the negative thoughts come - and they will they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.

Joel Osteen

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Joel Osteen
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 5
Minister
Politician
Preacher
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Houston
Texas
Joel Scott Osteen
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Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.
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You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.
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I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.
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Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.
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Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.
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It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, This sickness can't take my life. This cancer can't defeat me. No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.
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You will become what you believe. The truth is, I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday. And I will be tomorrow what I believe about myself right now
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Smiling resets your mood.
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Make the decision and say, I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in. Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.
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When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.
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My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
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My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.
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We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
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I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
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That's what I feel like I'm called to do - to plant a seed of hope in people's hearts.
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People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
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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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Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.
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I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.
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God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.
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