Robert H. Schuller famous quotes

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Faith #Negative #Reacting

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Spring #Cutting #Decision

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Motivational #Success #Encouragement

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Positive #Encouraging #Perseverance

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Spheres #Responsible #Scope

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Single #Attitude #Past

Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Faith #Weak

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Positive #Dream

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Life #Moving On

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Motivational #Success #Courage

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Positive #Army #Positivity

I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Dream #Insperational #Alive

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Vision #Today #World

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Life #Motivational #Positive

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Bad Day #Caring #Underestimate

For every mountain, there is a miracle.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Miracle #Mountain

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Hurt #Secret #Needs

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Hope #Encouragement

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Today #Size

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Failure #Victory #Possibility

We all know that a church is not a building.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Church #Building

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Jesus #Real #Names

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Death #Life Is #Moments

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Wisdom #Accomplishment #Achievement

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Life #Motivation #Tunnels

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Motivational #God #Apples

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Motivational #Mistake #Decision

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Believe #Optimism #Ends

I love my son and am proud of my son.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Son #I Love My Son #Proud

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Believe #Positive Thinking #Expectations

Turn your scars into stars.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Stars #Failure #Divorce

Every problem has a limited life span.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Life #Problem

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#May #Bends In The Road #Ends

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Ideas #Innovation #Impossible

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Change #Want #Realizing

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Motivational #Dream #Inspiration

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Success #People #Ladders

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Unique #Ethics #Grows

Winning starts with beginning.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Meaningful #Winning #Winner

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Business #Goal #Ego

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Motivational #Imagination #Design

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Life #Success

You will never win if you never begin.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Winning

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Success #Dream #Moving

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Powerful #Failure

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Motivational #Positive #Funny Inspirational

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Life #Truth

Build a dream and the dream will build you.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Motivational #Dream

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Positive #Miracle #Impossible

Daring to dream means daring to live.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Dream #Mean #Daring

Success is never ending, failure is never final.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Failure #Finals

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It's possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Success #Beautiful #Dream

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Money #Ideas #Suffering

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Wisdom #Attitude #News

The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Christian #Errors #Historical

What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His children of their right to divine dignity. ... I can offer still another answer: 'Sin is any act or thought that robs myself or another human being of his or her self-esteem'.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Children #Self Esteem #Mean

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Insulting #Answers #Dignity

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Self #Soul #Negative

... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Jesus #Self Esteem #Believe

Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Thinking #Self #Evil

The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Self Esteem #Pride #Perfect

Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Communication #Reflection #Catholic

Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Creative #Historical #Next

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Self Esteem #Mean #Doubt

I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Life Changing #Love Is #Self

We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Spiritual #Children #Self Esteem

One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Communication #Quality #Roles

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Needs #Recognition #Hunger

Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Religious #Self Esteem #Communication

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Opportunity #Thinking #People

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Tomorrow #Pessimism #Curtains

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Love #Grace #Action

Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Water #Cows #Quitting

Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's out of sight to the head-a path you'll surely overlook, left alone on your lofty perch up there, too distracted by your world to see the real world where I live. I live on the level of laughter, tears, and-yes-prayer.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Prayer #Laughter #Real

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Marriage #Sex #Guilt

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Faith #Moving #Decision

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Faith #Doubt #Have Faith

You won't win if you don't begin.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Winning

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Reality #Faces #Anticipation

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Attitude #Positive Thinking #Opportunity

You didn't think that when you got up this morning that this would be the day your life would change did you? But it's going to happen because the only thing that stands between you and grand success are getting started and not stopping.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Morning #Thinking #Stopping

Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Miracle #Today #Tomorrow

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Inspirational #Dream #Alive

...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Christian #Religious #Self Esteem

The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Religious #Self Esteem #Ideas

If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Religious #Jesus #Self Esteem

Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts... You can't let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control your future decisions.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Dream #Hurt #Grief

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Men #Theology #Insistence

I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Children #Needs #Attention

Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Creative #Energy #Negative

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Conscious #Subconscious

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Determination #Progress #Impossible

Every burden is a blessing.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Adversity #Blessing #Burden

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Church #Royalty #My Family

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Catholic #Church #Theology

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Differences #Church #Missions