Joel Osteen Quotes

If you see anything, you see I post a lot of Scriptures.

In the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.

I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.

I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others.

God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.

Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.

At the end of the day, regardless of whether you're doing a huge budget film or a small budget film, you still want the film to do well, and have people see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message into your films, and you want people to see it.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.