Joel Osteen

“Do all you can to make your dreams come true.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.”

“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.”

“You can be happy where you are.”

“Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.”

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

“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 the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.”

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

“You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.”

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”

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

“A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.”

“Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.”