Joel Osteen

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.

It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

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

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

You can be happy where you are.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I don't go down the road of condemning.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.