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Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

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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You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.
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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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It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
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I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.
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Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.
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You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.
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At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!
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Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.
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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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But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.
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