Quotes by Joel Osteen

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. Im going to be my best right now. Thats what faith is all about.

Faith is easy I think people complicate it.

I dont think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Im not for gay marriage, but Im not for discriminating against people.

Isnt 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.

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?

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. Theres the teaching that were supposed to be poor to show that were humble. I dont buy that. I think were supposed to be leaders. Were supposed to excel.

See, when you drive home today, youve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And youve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because whats happened in your past is not near as important as whats in your future.

I believe Gods keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You cant give God something without God giving you more in return, whether its peace or joy or satisfaction.

Lifes a fight. Its a good fight of faith.

Prospering just doesnt have to do with money.

To me, its OK to have differences. But we dont have to be mad about it. You know? And I think thats where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

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

Im trying to make God more relevant in our society.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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

I didnt try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

“Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.”