Joel Osteen Quotes

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am motivated to be a better person.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

It's always good to have fears for your eternal soul.

We are not disqualified or bad people trying to be good. We are holy, righteous, and redeemed. Sometimes, we spend more time on what we used to be and not who we are now.

Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.