Robert H. Schuller Quotes

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.

Turn your scars into stars.

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

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.

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

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

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

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

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

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.

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.

For every mountain, there is a miracle.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

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

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

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

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

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!

We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.

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.

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

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

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.

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

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God's walk, work God's work, fulfill God's will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.

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.

Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego.

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

Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.

... 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.

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.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

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.

We are the Love, loving.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

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

Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.

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

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

I love my son and am proud of my son.

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

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

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.

Every burden is a blessing.