Joel Osteen Quotes

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.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

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

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.‘

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

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

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

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

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.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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

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.

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.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

God always wants us to be growing.

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.

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.

I don’t have all the answers.

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

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

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

God wants to bless us where we are.

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.

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.

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

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

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.

I have always believed in God.

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.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

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

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.

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

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

If you give, you will be blessed.

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

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

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.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

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.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

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

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

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

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

My message is that God is a good God.

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

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

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

I think the word rich is all relative.

I write all my sermons.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.