Joel Osteen Quotes

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

Without God and the strong heart that I have, I wouldn't be able to make it.

God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. In this way he can bring discouragement and surrender. But we must not lose hope. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope.

You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

I'm strong and spiritual, and I know that everything will work out for a reason.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.