Joel Osteen Quotes

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

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.

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

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

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.