Joel Osteen Quotes And Sayings

If You Want To Reap Financial Blessings, You Have To Sow Financially.

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.

This Is My Bible. I Am What It Says I Am. I Have What It Says I Have. I Can Do What It Says I Can Do.

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.

You Cannot Let Where You Are Today Cause You To Get Stuck. I'm Going To Be My Best Right Now. That's What Faith Is All About.

I Think How You Start The Day Many Times Determines What Kind Of Day You're Going To Have.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

If One Dream Dies, Dream Another Dream. If You Get Knocked Down, Get Back Up And Go Again.

Let Go Of Offence. Let Go Of Fear. Let Go Of Revenge. Don't Live Angry, Let Go Now!

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.

Indeed, It Is As Important To Learn How To Receive A Blessing As It Is To Be Willing To Give One.

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.

Sometimes God Will Deliver You From The Fire, And Other Times God Will Make You Fireproof.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Difficult Times, We're Not Supposed To Quit Believing; We're Not Supposed To Quit Growing.

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.

I'm Going To Let God Be The Judge Of Who Goes To Heaven And Hell.

Every Day Is A Gift From God. There's No Guarantee Of Tomorrow, So That Tells Me To See The Good In This Day To Make The Most Of It.

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.

If You Give, You Will Be Blessed.

Only God Can Look At Somebody's Heart.

My Message Is That God Is A Good God.

Gays Are Some Of The Nicest, Kindest, Most Loving People In The World.

Salvation And Christ's Love Is A Gift. You Don't Earn It. You've Got To Receive That Gift.

I'm Not Trying To Follow A Set Of Rules And Stuff. I'm Just Living My Life.

The Older I Get, The Better I Understand That Every Day Is A Gift.

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've Always Been Very Happy. I've Always Been Easy Going And I've Always Been Very Encouraging; It's Just My Personality.

If You Don't Set The Tone For The Day, The Devil Will Set It For You.

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 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 Say, Don't Try To Fight Your Own Battles Because God Will Do It.

I'm Not For Gay Marriage, But I'm Not For Discriminating Against People.

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.

Let Go Of Yesterday.

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 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.

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.