Quotes from Joel Osteen

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.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

If you give, you will be blessed.

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.

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 want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.