Joel Osteen
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.Collection: Easter
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.Collection: Easter
I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.Collection: Chance
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.Collection: Hope
God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.Collection: Success
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.Collection: Faith
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.Collection: Faith
I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.Collection: Marriage
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.Collection: Attitude
I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.Collection: Health
I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.Collection: Christmas
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.Collection: Communication
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.Collection: Marriage
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.Collection: Future
It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.Collection: Attitude
I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.Collection: Attitude
Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'Collection: Attitude
People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.Collection: Attitude
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.Collection: God
I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.Collection: God
I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.Collection: Thankful
Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.Collection: Attitude
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.Collection: Positive
Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.Collection: Christmas
Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?Collection: Money
I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.Collection: Hope
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.Collection: God
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.Collection: God
I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.Collection: Faith
I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.Collection: Faith
Only God can look at somebody's heart.Collection: God
My message is that God is a good God.Collection: God
I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.Collection: God
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.Collection: Power
See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.Collection: Future
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.Collection: Faith
Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.Collection: Faith
Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.Collection: Life
When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.Collection: Christmas
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.Collection: Finance
It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.Collection: Faith
Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.Collection: Good
God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.Collection: God
To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.Collection: Anger
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.Collection: Medical
We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.Collection: Amazing
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.Collection: Morning
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.Collection: Life
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.Collection: Health
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.Collection: Success