Joel Osteen Quotes

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I'm going to trust God that I'm not going to completely burn out, and that I'll have the energy in me to stay in it. Fortunately, I have really excellent people around me that are helping me.

I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.

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

Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

God, I know that if you bring me to it, you will bring me through it. I know you have a plan, but quite honestly I don’t see it right now. But I know it’s there. I know I have to believe. I know I need to have faith. I have to trust you. And I do trust you. But it’s hard right now.

When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.

I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.