Top 779 Quotes & Sayings by Joel Osteen - Page 2

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

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.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He's the Christ, raised from the dead, that He's his savior - that's good enough for me.

My message is that God is a good God.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

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.

I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.

Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

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. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.

Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.