Joel Osteen Quotes

Heaven means to be one with God.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

Science brings men nearer to God.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

I talk to the universe all the time.

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Your soul is between you and God.

This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.

Real prayer is union with God.

Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.