We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
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Joel Osteen
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About Joel Osteen
Joel Scott Osteen is an American pastor, televangelist, businessman, and author based in Houston, Texas, United States. Known for his weekly televised services and several best-selling books, Osteen is one of the more prominent figures associated with prosperity theology and the Word of Faith movement.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Joel OsteenPeople respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot…
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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ush…
It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
To me, we're marketing hope.
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.