Joel Osteen Quotes

I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.

People have the right to their opinion and you have the right to ignore it.

When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.

Don't confuse small with insignificant.

What you expect is what you will get.

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.

I write all my sermons.

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

I think we use God's word. I think the principles that you hear Dr. Phil and some of those others talk about many times are right out of the Bible.

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

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

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.

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.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

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.

You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.

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

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.

When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.

There's probably a balance between. I believe you have to know Christ. But I think that if you know Christ, if you're a believer in God, you're going to have some good works.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

I think it's a cop-out to say I'm a Christian but I don't ever do anything...

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

I believe here's what the Bible teaches and from the Christian faith this is what I believe.

I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.

I've always been an encourager at heart.

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.

I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you've got to make the most of every day.

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.

I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.

Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.

I think that Bible principles will help anybody.

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?

We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.

Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :(

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.

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

Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.

Don't sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.

God can make your enemies your footstool.

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.