Victoria Osteen Quotes

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God—I mean, that’s one way to look at it—we’re doing it for ourselves, because God takes pleasure when we’re happy. That’s the thing that gives Him the greatest joy. So, I want you to know this morning: Just do good for your own self. Do good because God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you’re not doing it for God really. You’re doing it for yourself, because that’s what makes God happy. Amen?

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

God's desire is that we excel.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.