Joel Osteen Quotes And Sayings

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My Message Is That God Is A Good God.

Only God Can Look At Somebody's Heart.

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

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

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