Author

I 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.

From Joel Osteen

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

From Joel Osteen

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.

From Joel Osteen

Isn'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.

From Joel Osteen