Joel Osteen Quotes

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

~ Joel Osteen

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

You can be happy where you are.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

~ Joel Osteen

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

~ Joel Osteen

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

~ Joel Osteen

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

~ Joel Osteen

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

~ Joel Osteen

We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.

~ Joel Osteen

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

~ Joel Osteen

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

~ Joel Osteen

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

~ Joel Osteen

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

~ Joel Osteen

God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

~ Joel Osteen

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

~ Joel Osteen

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

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

~ Joel Osteen

It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

~ Joel Osteen

My message is that God is a good God.

~ Joel Osteen

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

~ Joel Osteen

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

~ Joel Osteen

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

~ Joel Osteen

I really believed that fear is contagious.

~ Joel Osteen

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

~ Joel Osteen

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen

I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

~ Joel Osteen

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.

~ Joel Osteen