Top 500 Joel Osteen Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

303. “God didn’t create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything.”

— Joel Osteen

304. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Joel Osteen

313. “I’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

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Joel Osteen

321. “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

322. “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

323. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

325. “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

326. “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

327. “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

328. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

330. “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

331. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

333. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

335. “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

336. “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

337. “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

338. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Joel Osteen

341. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

343. “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

344. “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

345. “Never let discouraging people and discouraging situations talk you out of your dream.”

— Joel Osteen

346. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

348. “Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You’re in complete control of your happiness.”

— Joel Osteen

349. “One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful; we take for granted what God has done for us. We let what once was a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to goodness, it becomes routine; it doesn’t really excite us anymore.”

— Joel Osteen

350. “God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn’t mean it will always be easy, but it does mean that it will always be good.”

— Joel Osteen