Top 500 Joel Osteen Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “God’s desire is that we excel.”

— Joel Osteen

302. “It’s not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open for you.”

— Joel Osteen

303. “Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.”

— Joel Osteen

304. “When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it’s a destiny moment, don’t wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.”

— Joel Osteen

305. “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.”

— Joel Osteen

306. “The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.”

— Joel Osteen

307. “You may think you’re getting the short end of the stick, but when it’s all said and done, God will make sure that you don’t lose anything truly valuable. Moreover, He’ll make sure you get your just reward. Your responsibility is to remain calm and peaceable even when those around you are not.”

— Joel Osteen

308. “I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.”

— Joel Osteen

309. “You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.”

— Joel Osteen

310. “Take time to make a difference. Don’t just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else’s life better as well.”

— Joel Osteen

311. “God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He’s equipped us for that.”

— Joel Osteen

312. “When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.”

— Joel Osteen

313. “Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.”

— Joel Osteen

314. “A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.”

— Joel Osteen

315. “When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight.”

— Joel Osteen

316. “It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.”

— Joel Osteen

317. “The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.”

— Joel Osteen

318. “The 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

319. “Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.”

— Joel Osteen

320. “You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can’t do something, then you never will.”

— Joel Osteen

321. “The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.”

— Joel Osteen

322. “If you give, you will be blessed.”

— Joel Osteen

323. “The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don’t get discouraged, keep moving forward.”

— Joel Osteen

324. “Don’t spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race.”

— Joel Osteen

325. “Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.”

— Joel Osteen

326. “It doesnt matter how long it’s been or how impossible it looks, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what God wants to do.”

— Joel Osteen

327. “It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”

— Joel Osteen

328. “Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.”

— Joel Osteen

329. “When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God’s best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.”

— Joel Osteen

330. “It’s better to please God and have a few people upset with you than to please people and have God upset with you.”

— Joel Osteen

331. “Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.”

— Joel Osteen

332. “If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.”

— Joel Osteen

333. “You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.”

— Joel Osteen

334. “The greater the giving, the greater the living.”

— Joel Osteen

335. “The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.”

— Joel Osteen

336. “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.”

— Joel Osteen

337. “You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.”

— Joel Osteen

338. “I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.”

— Joel Osteen

339. “Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you’ll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.”

— Joel Osteen

340. “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.”

— Joel Osteen

341. “No matter what you’ve gone through in the past, no matter how many setbacks you’ve suffered or who or what has tried to thwart your progress, today is a new day, and God wants to do a new thing in your life.”

— Joel Osteen

342. “No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you’ll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.”

— Joel Osteen

343. “My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.”

— Joel Osteen

344. “Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.”

— Joel Osteen

345. “It’s amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher.”

— Joel Osteen

346. “It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”

— Joel Osteen

347. “I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I’m on the right course, try to be honest with myself – am I doing this for the right reasons?”

— Joel Osteen

348. “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

349. “God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”

— Joel Osteen

350. “It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.”

— Joel Osteen