Top 100 Robert H. Schuller Quotes
#1. 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.'
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#3. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
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#9. I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
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#10. 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.
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#15. There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.
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#17. Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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!
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#22. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed.
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#23. Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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#24. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
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#25. Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
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#26. If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!
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#29. If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
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#30. Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
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#32. I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.
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#33. You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.
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#34. A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
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#37. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.
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#41. 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'.
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#42. The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.
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#44. Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.
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#45. God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
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#46. 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.
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#49. Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
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#52. The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
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#56. God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#61. You know how many seeds are in an apple. But you don't know how many apples are in a seed.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.
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#66. I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible.
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#68. Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.
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#69. 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.
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#71. 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'.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.
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#81. The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.
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#83. The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
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#84. Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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#85. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
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#86. The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.
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#87. If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.
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#89. 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!
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#91. Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.
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#93. 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.
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#94. Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.
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#95. There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream...you!
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#96. It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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#99. 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.
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#100. What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
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