Robert H. Schuller Quotes

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

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

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

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.

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

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

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

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

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

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.

Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.

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

Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.

Now - find God's dream for your life and go all out for it!

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.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

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

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

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

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.

You will never win if you never begin.

I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind. .. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.

Be the artist you were born to be.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

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.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

God's delays are not God's denials.

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

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

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

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

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

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.

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.

We all know that a church is not a building.

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

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

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.

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!

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.

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

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.