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If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.
– Joel Osteen

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  2. Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. – Criss Jami
  3. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
  4. If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. – Tullian Tchividjian
  5. Jesus was saying that you can’t have a larger life with restricted attitudes. – Joel Osteen
  6. I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors. – Joel Osteen
  7. Don’t waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over. – Joel Osteen
  8. Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. 🙁 – Joel Osteen
  9. You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious. – Joel Osteen
  10. What you keep before your eyes will affect you. – Joel Osteen
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  13. Don’t sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life. – Joel Osteen
  14. God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use – Joel Osteen
  15. Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day. – Joel Osteen
  16. Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper – Sunday Adelaja
  17. The only time I hold my wife’s hand tightly is when my wallet is in her other hand. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  18. If you hold a bird too tightly, you’ll crush its wings – VC Andrews
  19. Never allow your dreams to die. Hold on tightly to your most cherished dreams. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  20. for those memories are nowjust like these little kittensI hold in my handsthose can be kissedand treasuredbut not held too tightly. – Sanober Khan
  21. Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  22. If you love a bird don’t hold it too tightly or you’ll soon be nursing a broken heart. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  23. If you love a bird don’t hold it too tightly or you’ll soon be nursing a broken heart. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  24. I know I’ll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I’ll hold, I’ll hold. I know. – Sara Quin
  25. The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. – Katherine Center
  26. Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states. – Monks of New Skete
  27. What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol. – Peter Rollins
  28. Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don’t aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  29. In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
  30. The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. – Ron Pearce
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  40. PROBLEMS are like cold or hot water, how much you pack it tightly but its moisture comes outside – Samar Sudha

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