Zitat des Tages von Joel Osteen:
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.
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.
When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He's the Christ, raised from the dead, that He's his savior - that's good enough for me.
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.
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.
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.
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 just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.
Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.
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.
Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
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.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
To me, we're marketing hope.
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. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
I don't go down the road of condemning.
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.