Joel Osteen Quotes

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

God to me is love.

Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.