Joel Osteen Quotes

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

We must ask people to forget about the past and to live for the future.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

I believe with all my heart that God still destines for us an even better future and the opportunity to continue to serve as an inspiration to the world.

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

God asks us, in trusting Him, to risk everything on a future for which we have not planned, while Satan asks us to give up just one little thing, an unborn child, to keep control over our lives and save everything we have planned for. The devil uses despair, the fear of losing what we have, to make us do things.

We must forget the past.