Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Osteen

I think we use God's word. I think the principles that you hear Dr. Phil and some of those others talk about many times are right out of the Bible.

Joel Osteen

You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.

Joel Osteen

I believe God will fight my battles for me.

Joel Osteen

My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.

Joel Osteen

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

Joel Osteen

We're going to bring our core message of hope and how God is a good God who's on our side.

Joel Osteen

That's my thing - keep filled with faith. Keep doing what you can do and I believe God will do what you can't do.

Joel Osteen

You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

Joel Osteen

But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.

Joel Osteen

My message is that God is a good God.

Joel Osteen

Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.

Joel Osteen

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

Joel Osteen

When you are grateful, that allows God to do great things in your life.

Joel Osteen

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Joan Baez

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

Louis Agassiz

One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.

Louis Agassiz

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

Louis Agassiz

It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.

Louis Agassiz

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

John D. Barrow

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.

Linda McCartney

I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

Leo Tolstoy

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Leo Tolstoy

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Leo Tolstoy

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Leo Tolstoy

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

Leo Tolstoy

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

Leo Tolstoy

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

Joyce Meyer

Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.

Joyce Meyer

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

Joseph Stowell

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Joseph Campbell

God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

Joseph Campbell

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army