Quotes from 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.

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.

I write all my sermons.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

If you give, you will be blessed.

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.

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

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

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.

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

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.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

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

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

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.

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

Life begins each morning.