Joel Osteen Quotes

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Joel Osteen

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : March 5, 1963

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

Joel Osteen

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Joel Osteen

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

Joel Osteen

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

Joel Osteen

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

Joel Osteen

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

Joel Osteen

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

Joel Osteen

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

Joel Osteen

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

Joel Osteen

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

Joel Osteen

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Joel Osteen

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Joel Osteen

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Joel Osteen

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Joel Osteen

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

Joel Osteen

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Joel Osteen

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal... God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Joel Osteen

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Joel Osteen

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Joel Osteen

I don't go down the road of condemning.

Joel Osteen