Joel Osteen Quotes

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.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you!

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

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.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

Jesus didn’t go around condemning people. The Bible says it’s the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good or bad, positive or negative.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Associate with people of vision. Be around those who inspire you and motivate you to reach your dreams.

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

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.