Joel Osteen Quotes

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

My future is about God.

My hope is in God.

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.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

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

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.