Top 100 Robert Schuller Quotes
#1. 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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#2. We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.
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#7. 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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#8. I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church.
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#10. 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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#11. Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.
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#12. Don't stop at the first obstacle; have endurance to keep on going and you will succeed.
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#13. Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
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#14. 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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#15. A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
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#16. 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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#17. I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.
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#18. To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.
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#20. Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
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#21. If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#28. Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
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#29. Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
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#30. 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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#32. Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
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#33. The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.
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#34. You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
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#35. 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.
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#40. 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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#43. 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.
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#45. 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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#46. God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
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#47. 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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#49. 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.
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#50. 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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#52. 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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#57. 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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#58. I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
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#59. I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.
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#61. The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
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#62. 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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#63. I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building.
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#65. As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
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#66. 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.
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#69. I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.
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#70. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
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#71. Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)
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#72. 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.
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#74. 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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#76. Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.
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#77. 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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#79. I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.
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#81. 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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#82. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
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#83. Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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#85. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
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#87. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#93. They decided to no longer air my messages on 'The Hour of Power.' They felt they could have greater impact if they had lots of different preachers. 'The Hour of Power' owns the Crystal Cathedral, and the owners, in effect, evicted me ... so that they could have other preachers on Sunday mornings.
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#95. 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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#97. 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.
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#98. Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 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.
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