01c. 1963 ADIf you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
02c. 1963 ADI believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
03c. 1963 ADSee, 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.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
04c. 1963 ADI believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
07c. 1963 ADTo 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1963 ADMost people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
10c. 1963 ADWhen my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
11c. 1963 ADI made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
12c. 1963 ADMy dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.Joel Osteen / quote ↗
13c. 1963 ADI 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 / quote ↗
