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.

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

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

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.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

I really believed that fear is contagious.