Words matter. These are the best Robert H. Schuller Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
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.
It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
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.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.
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.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don’t know how to quit.
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.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
I love my son and am proud of my son.
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I’ve gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.
You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn’t want to.
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
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.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.
If you’re going to counsel people – and that’s all my ministry is, it’s a counseling ministry more than anything else – people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you’re going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.
Jesus never called a human being a sinner.
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.
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.
Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.
Turn your scars into stars.
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.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
