Joel Osteen quotes

“Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.”

— Joel Osteen

“I don't go down the road of condemning.”

— Joel Osteen

“I don't have all the answers.”

— Joel Osteen

“I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.”

— Joel Osteen

“I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.”

— Joel Osteen

“The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.”

— Joel Osteen

“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.”

— Joel Osteen

“I don't dislike anybody.”

— Joel Osteen

“I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.”

— Joel Osteen

“I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.”

— Joel Osteen

“My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.”

— Joel Osteen

“I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.”

— Joel Osteen

“I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.”

— Joel Osteen

“I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.”

— Joel Osteen

“I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.”

— Joel Osteen

“I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.”

— Joel Osteen

“I think the word rich is all relative.”

— Joel Osteen

“I write all my sermons.”

— Joel Osteen

“I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.”

— Joel Osteen

“I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.”

— Joel Osteen

“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

“Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.”

— Joel Osteen

“My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.”

— Joel Osteen

“On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.”

— Joel Osteen

“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 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.”

— Joel Osteen