Top 173 Quotes & Sayings by Robert H. Schuller - Page 2

The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.

The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

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.

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.

I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church.

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

You know how many seeds are in an apple. But you don't know how many apples are in a seed.

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

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.

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth.

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

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.

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.

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

Every problem has a limited life span.

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

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'.

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

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

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!

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!

I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible.

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.

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!

Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

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.

Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

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.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

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

When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

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.

You won't win if you don't begin.

You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.

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.

Daring to dream means daring to live.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities