Quotes from Joel Osteen
You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don't need their approval to fulfill your destiny.
- Joel Osteen
It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher.
- Joel Osteen
Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.
- Joel Osteen
Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.
- Joel Osteen
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.
- Joel Osteen
The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.
- Joel Osteen
Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
- Joel Osteen
At this very moment, God's working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!
- Joel Osteen
Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.
- Joel Osteen
Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
- Joel Osteen
I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.
- Joel Osteen
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
- Joel Osteen