Joel Osteen Quotes

If I believe the Bible, then I don't believe that a gay lifestyle or a homosexual lifestyle is the right way to choose to live. I believe that there's something so much better.

And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

If God does not condone homosexual behavior, He must not condone homosexual marriage…. God created man and woman. These two comprise humanity. God did not create homosexuals.

If a person is gay and accepts the Lord, who am I to judge them.

Charles Sumner didn’t believe in the Bible because he didn’t write it.

Homosexuality is a violation of God's standard.