Quotes By Joel Osteen

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

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.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

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

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Let go of yesterday.

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

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

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

God's desire is that we excel.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

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

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

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

If you give, you will be blessed.

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

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.

To me, we're marketing hope.

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.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

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

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.