Joel Osteen Quotes

Just because we want something so bad does not mean that God wants it for us, too.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

I think often that God is guiding me.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen Campbell is almost unbelievable.

Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

Sometimes, the plans in your heart aren't God's plan.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.