Quotes from Joel Osteen

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

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

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.

Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

Don't fall in love with the blessings. Fall in love with the Blessor. Seek first the Kingdom & God will reward you!

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

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

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other 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.

You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

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.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.