Joel Osteen Quotes

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Christianity is the hallmark of civilization.

Bible is more reliable than tradition

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

My parents are very good examples of Christians. They are big on forgiveness.

[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

I was raised in the church.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

I love the Bible.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

My parents were Christian.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.