Joel Osteen Quotes

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

Don't bother to ask Allah to forgive the disbelievers. He will never forgive them.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

If dogs and pigs don't do it [homosexuality] why must human beings. Let the Americans keep their sodomy, bestiality, stupid and foolish ways to themselves, out of Zimbabwe. We don't want these practices here. Let them be gay in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.

Ordination Regardless of Orientation!

If they’re [homosexuals are] not going to get eternal benefits in Heaven, why should we give them government rewards here on this earth? I don’t think we should.

In the last decade homophobia has been reduced to the margins of Israeli society, but there it is entrenched. Homophobic discourse is still with us. We see it in inciting rabbis who try to use Torah and Halacha (Jewish law) to legitimize their homophobia.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

I am proud that in the Netherlands I can come out for my homosexuality, and I'd like to keep it that way.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.

My faith tradition is love your enemies. It's not complicated for me, if I aspire to be who I say I am. I am a Christian American. Literally written in the ideals of my faith is to love those who hate you. I don't see why that's so shocking.