Joel Osteen Quotations | Page 3

I am excited about the opportunity of expanding our outreach with Free Press.

And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

I never dreamed my book was going to do what it's done, ... Hopefully I'll never have to take a salary from the church again. We plan to be good givers.

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.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

The love of life is the root of all good.

Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.

I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.

You sacrifice the few to save the many.

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

When you go through difficult times, make sure you pass the test. Don’t be stubborn and hardheaded. Recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. Stand strong and fight the good fight of faith. God has called each of us to be champions; you are destined to win. If you will work with God and keep a good attitude, then no matter what comes against you, the bible says that all things – not just the good things in life, but all things – work together for your good.

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.

Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.

When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Winning is in your DNA. The most high God breathed His life into you. You've got what it takes. This is your time. This is your moment. Shake off doubts, shake off fear and insecurity, and get ready for favor, get ready for increase, get ready for the fullness of your destiny. You can, you will!!

You have to come to your closed doors before you come to your open doors

You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

No matter what comes your way, don't lose your joy.

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.

You may think you’re getting the short end of the stick, but when it’s all said and done, God will make sure that you don’t lose anything truly valuable. Moreover, He’ll make sure you get your just reward. Your responsibility is to remain calm and peaceable even when those around you are not.

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you’re going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

He is still in control. He still has you in the palm of His hand.

I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration.

I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.

I think we use God's word. I think the principles that you hear Dr. Phil and some of those others talk about many times are right out of the Bible.

God's used me to help turn their life around or give them hope, you know? It's very rewarding

I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

It's not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open for you.

To me, we're marketing hope.

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

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

Your life will follow your expectations. What you expect is what you will get. If you dwell on positive thoughts, you will move in that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life.

I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!

God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

I'm getting better every day in every way.

Don’t hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone.

Today, decide not to speak negatively about yourself. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God’s very own creation.

God can make greatness out of a great mess

Believe that God is in control. There is no need to be stressed out or worried

It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.

You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.

Failure is an event-it’s not who you are. Don’t let that label get stuck on you. If one dream dies, dream another dream.

I will pour out my spirit on all flesh

Your situation may look impossible, but don't ever rule out the favor of God.

Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you.

Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.

You control the doorway to your mind.

No matter how dark it looks, no matter how long it's been, no matter how many people are trying to push you down; if you will stay in faith, God will always take you from Friday to Sunday. He will always complete what He started in you!

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This is my declaration.

I have always believed in God.

You don't know what's on the inside until you put a demand on your potential.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback!

When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.

I believe God's keeping the records and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life; somehow, some way God will make it up to you.

I just wanted to get the message that God had put into my heart into another form, because I knew the print media would reach a different group of people.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

Let's start affecting our whole city, and maybe we can affect the whole nation, the whole world. I'd like to affect it with the fact that God is a good God and He's on your side and He's got a good plan for you and when you put your hand in His, great things can happen.

I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you've got to make the most of every day.

This is a day that God has given me. It's a gift. I can never relive this day. And I'm not going to live it angry, in unforgiveness, and mad at somebody. If I don't get my way, I'm going to believe that God's still in control.

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.

I think we should enjoy our families and everyone that we love right now, each day.

Don't get stuck where you are, keep growing. It's a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life.

I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.

I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.

There are a lot of decisions we pass up on because we think, "You know what? That's just going to build - you know, maybe that's going to build me and not build the ministry and what I'm trying to do." So we pass up on a lot of opportunities.

You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.

I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to Hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better.

If prosperity means God wants us to be blessed and healthy and have good relationships then yes, I'm a prosperity teacher. But if it's about money, no, I never preach about money. I probably stay away from it more than normal because televangelists get a bad name. People put me in that category because I do believe that God does want us to be happy, healthy, and whole.

I think that Bible principles will help anybody.

Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.

God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.

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.

So many people talk about themselves: "I'm unattractive, my mind's so slow, and I can't do this." And you know what I tell them? "God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you."

I try to teach people that I believe God wants us to be positive toward ourselves, meaning that, you know what, I like the way I look, I like the way I sound, I'm happy with what I'm doing in my career - and not always be beating ourselves down.

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?

I'm not perfect, but I think that I've done good to stay focused on what I'm called to do.

We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.

Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

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

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

It’s better to please God and have a few people upset with you than to please people and have God upset with you.

God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.

No matter what you’ve been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!