American - Clergyman | March 5, 1963 -
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
Joel Osteen
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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
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I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
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I write all my sermons.
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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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You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
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I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
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There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
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I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down.
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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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I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.
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