Joel Osteen Quotes

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

I know God has a plan for me. I don't know what it is.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

I believe God will make a way.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I try to act out of faith.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.