Joel Osteen Quotes

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.

My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in a Christian home and an awesome family.

I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy. I notice when I meet other friends of mine that were raised Christian sometimes we have similar model of sensitivity, whether to our advantage or disadvantage.

I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.