Joel Osteen

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.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

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