Robert h. schuller quotes

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

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

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.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego.

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.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

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.

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.

God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

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.

Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.

We are the Love, loving.

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

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.

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

Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.

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.

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

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It's possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!

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'.

Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.

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.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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!

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.

You will never win if you never begin.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream…you!

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

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

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.

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.

Big egos have little ears.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

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.

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.

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

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

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Every burden is a blessing.

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

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Turn your scars into stars.

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.

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.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

You won't win if you don't begin.

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.

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

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.

For every mountain, there is a miracle.

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

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'.

Winning starts with beginning.

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

... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.

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

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.

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.

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

Every problem has a limited life span.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

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

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

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.

The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

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.

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.

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

Daring to dream means daring to live.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.

Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.

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

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

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

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.