Difficult times don’t come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

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Difficult times don’t come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

-- Joel Osteen

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I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

-- Joel Osteen

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You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically.

-- Joel Osteen

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I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

-- Joel Osteen

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You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events. –

-- Joel Osteen

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Difficult times don’t come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you. –

-- Joel Osteen

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