Top 100 Schuller Quotes
#2. 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.'
Robert H. Schuller
#4. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#6. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#7. Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)
Robert A. Schuller
#9. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#12. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#13. As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
Robert H. Schuller
#15. 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.
Robert A. Schuller
#16. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#17. The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
Robert H. Schuller
#19. I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.
Robert H. Schuller
#20. I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
Robert H. Schuller
#21. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#26. Real happiness comes from a deeper place, not from anything external. The freshest and best water flows from the deepest, darkest chasms of the mountain. Likewise, true happiness flows from the hidden places of the human heart.
Bobby Schuller
#27. There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.
Robert H. Schuller
#29. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#30. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#31. Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.
Robert H. Schuller
#32. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#34. Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.
Robert H. Schuller
#36. 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.
Robert A. Schuller
#38. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#39. 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!
Robert H. Schuller
#40. 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.
Robert A. Schuller
#42. But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
Gunther Schuller
#43. I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
Gunther Schuller
#44. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller
#46. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
#48. Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller
#49. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller
#50. Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Robert H. Schuller
#52. I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.
Robert A. Schuller
#53. Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.
Gunther Schuller
#55. If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!
Robert H. Schuller
#57. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#58. As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Gunther Schuller
#60. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#61. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#62. If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller
#63. Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
Robert H. Schuller
#65. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#66. I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.
Robert H. Schuller
#67. You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.
Robert H. Schuller
#68. A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
Robert H. Schuller
#69. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#70. So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
Gunther Schuller
#71. Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
Robert H. Schuller
#72. Don't stop at the first obstacle; have endurance to keep on going and you will succeed.
Robert A. Schuller
#73. Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.
Robert H. Schuller
#74. After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
Gunther Schuller
#75. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#77. I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church.
Robert H. Schuller
#78. My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.
Gunther Schuller
#79. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#84. That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
Gunther Schuller
#85. We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.
Robert H. Schuller
#86. 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'.
Robert H. Schuller
#87. The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.
Robert H. Schuller
#88. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#90. Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.
Robert H. Schuller
#91. I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.
Gunther Schuller
#92. God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
Robert H. Schuller
#93. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#95. 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.
Robert H. Schuller
#98. Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
Robert H. Schuller
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