Joel Osteen Quotes

I was born into a family of preachers.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

I'd make a bad preacher.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.

I grew up in the church, and my mom is, like a major prayer warrior.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.