Joel Osteen Quotes

Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.