Joel Osteen

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.