Joel Osteen Quotes

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

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

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

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

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

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.

The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?