Joel Osteen Trying Quotations

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.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

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

I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

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'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past.

Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your problems.

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.