Top 173 Quotes & Sayings by Robert H. Schuller
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American priest Robert H. Schuller.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Turn your scars into stars.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Jesus never called a human being a sinner.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
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.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Winning starts with beginning.
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.
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.
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
We all know that a church is not a building.
The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
God's delays are not God's denials.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.
I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
I love my son and am proud of my son.
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
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.
What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
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.
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