Author Profile
Joel Osteen
1963 • American • Clergyman
83
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 83 quotesI try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.— Joel Osteen
I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.— Joel Osteen
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.— Joel Osteen
I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.— Joel Osteen
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.— Joel Osteen
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.— Joel Osteen
When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.— Joel Osteen
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.— Joel Osteen
When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.— Joel Osteen
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.— 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
There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.— Joel Osteen
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.— Joel Osteen
Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.— Joel Osteen
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.— Joel Osteen