Joel Osteen quotes:

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  • Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

  • Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

  • You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

  • I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

  • God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

  • God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

  • Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

  • It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

  • Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

  • Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

  • See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

  • 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.

  • Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

  • When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

  • 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.

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

  • I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal... God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

  • We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

  • I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

  • I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He's on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

  • Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

  • I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

  • I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

  • 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.

  • I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

  • 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.

  • 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'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

  • If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

  • 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.

  • Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

  • Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

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

  • It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

  • 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.

  • You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

  • I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

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

  • If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

  • I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

  • I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

  • I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.

  • I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

  • God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

  • I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

  • I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

  • God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

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

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

  • Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

  • I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.

  • 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.

  • My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

  • People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

  • 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.

  • I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

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

  • 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.

  • We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

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

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

  • I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

  • I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

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

  • A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

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

  • I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.

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

  • You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

  • God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

  • I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

  • I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

  • In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

  • It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

  • You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

  • God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

  • 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.

  • Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

  • I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

  • When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

  • I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

  • I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

  • The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.

  • Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

  • Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

  • Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

  • 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.

  • I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

  • I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

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

  • My message is that God is a good God.

  • God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

  • Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

  • God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

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

  • Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

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

  • If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

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

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

  • 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.

  • I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

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

  • I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

  • God wants to bless us where we are.

  • We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

  • We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

  • Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

  • I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

  • It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

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