01c. 1963 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1963 ADGod wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
03c. 1963 ADIt doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
06c. 1963 ADLet go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!Joel Osteen / quote ↗
09c. 1963 ADI've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
10c. 1963 ADA 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.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
11c. 1963 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1963 ADI'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.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
13c. 1963 ADI purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
14c. 1963 ADYou'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 / quote ↗
15c. 1963 ADWhen the negative thoughts come - and they will they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
16c. 1963 ADI 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 / quote ↗
17c. 1963 ADSometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
18c. 1963 ADGod didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
19c. 1963 ADIt'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.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
20c. 1963 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
22c. 1963 ADI don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
23c. 1963 ADI'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
24c. 1963 ADIsn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
