Quotes from Joel Osteen

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.

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.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

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

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

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

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

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.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

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

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 message is that God is a good God.

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

Maybe you've invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.

Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.