Joel Osteen Quotes

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Great faith must have great trials.

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

I had to get beat to understand how to win.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

Struggle is the best teacher.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

Hard times produce your greatest gifts.

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.