Joel Osteen Quotes
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I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.
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I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
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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.
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To me, we're marketing hope.
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I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
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You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.
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Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
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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.
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I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
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My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
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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.
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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.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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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.
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I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.
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I write all my sermons.
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I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.
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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.
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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.
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You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
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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.
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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.
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I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
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On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.