Joel Osteen Quotes

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.

As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

I'm a Christian man, and I don't believe anything could be put in front of me that God can't take away.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age - that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.

When troubles come our way, we can be stressed and upset, or we can trust God. Caleb could have cursed God. He didn't deserve the wilderness. He had to put his dreams on hold for four decades. Still he didn't complain or grow sour.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.