Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it. "
Joel Osteen
Grow
You
Accept
Related Quotes:
" I really believed that fear is contagious. "
Joel Osteen
Contagious
Really
Believed
" Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are. "
Joel Osteen
Work
You
Way
" You have enough people against you... be for yourself. "
Joel Osteen
Enough
Against
You
" 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
Saturday
Community
Day
" You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about. "
Joel Osteen
Now
You
Today
" 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. "
Joel Osteen
You
Life
Positive
" If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you. "
Joel Osteen
You
Will
Tone
" You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward. "
Joel Osteen
Great
Moving Forward
Door
" 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. "
Joel Osteen
Positive
Grateful
God
" People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. "
Joel Osteen
Tell
Future
Great
" If you give, you will be blessed. "
Joel Osteen
Blessed
Give
Will
" I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people. "
Joel Osteen
World
Want
Walls
" This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. "
Joel Osteen
Says
Bible
I Am
" It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down. "
Joel Osteen
Humble
You
Say
" I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. "
Joel Osteen
Tried
Pressure
Try
" I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen. "
Joel Osteen
God
You
Things Happen
" I mean we all need a second chance sometimes. "
Joel Osteen
Sometimes
Need
Chance
" You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God. "
Joel Osteen
You
God
High
" 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
Yourself
Brother
Day
" I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ. "
Joel Osteen
Church
God
Good
" You can be happy where you are. "
Joel Osteen
Be Happy
Happiness
Happy
" Do all you can to make your dreams come true. "
Joel Osteen
Your
Your Dreams
True
" I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin. "
Joel Osteen
Scripture
I Believe
Believe
" We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving. "
Joel Osteen
Mercy
Mean
You
" When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. "
Joel Osteen
Blessed
Focus
Blessing
" When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me. "
Joel Osteen
Feeling
Me
People
" You are victors, not victims! "
Joel Osteen
Victims
You
Victors
" My message is that God is a good God. "
Joel Osteen
Good
God
Message
" 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. "
Joel Osteen
Life
Attitude
Grateful
" 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. "
Joel Osteen
Anger
Think
You