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I DECLARE there is an anointing of ease on my life. God is going before me making crooked places straight. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. I will not continually struggle. What used to be difficult will not be difficult anymore. God's favor and blessing on my life is lightening the load and taking the pressure off. This is my declaration.
— Joel Osteen
You can't become who you were created to be without opposition, things you don't understand. The way to endure is to remind yourself that what God has in your future is not just going to make up for what you've been through, but He is going to bring you out better.
— Joel Osteen
God, this is a dark place. I may not see it now, but I believe it's working for me. I'm getting stronger. I'm developing patience and perseverance and learning to trust You.
— Joel Osteen
Their minds had become conditioned to accept not having enough, to always struggle and lack. The problem is that if you accept it as your way of life, you won't do anything about it. It's easy to get comfortable with mediocrity and just adapt to your environment.
— Joel Osteen
You don't have to hide. You don't have to pretend, worry about what people will think. Everyone is dealing with something. There's no shame in saying, "I need help. I'm struggling; I'm hurting; I'm broken.
— Joel Osteen
You may have struggled in an area for a long time, but don't have a limited mind-set. You have to give God permission to increase you. It starts in your thinking.
— Joel Osteen
Understand, adversities are simply a test of your faith. Perhaps God wants to see how you will treat other people when you are mistreated.
— Joel Osteen
Are you going to let the circumstances, what people say, what hasn't worked out, convince you to settle where you are & give up on what you're believing for? Get your passion back. God didn't create you to live constantly struggling. That's not your destiny; that's temporary.
— Joel Osteen
Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.
— Annette Funicello
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
— Dallas Willard
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
— Henri Nouwen
But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.
— John Calvin