Famous Quotes

Quotes by Joel Osteen

• My message is that God is a good God.
• 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.
• On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
• Only God can look at somebody's heart.
• People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
• People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
• People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
• Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
• Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
• The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
• 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.
• To me, we're marketing hope.
• We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
• When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
• 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.
• You can be happy where you are.
• You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
• 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.
• 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.