Quotes from Joel Osteen

God wants to bless us where we are.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

You can be happy where you are.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

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

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

I have always believed in God.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

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.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

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.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.