Robert H. Schuller Quotes: Robert H. Schuller’s quotes reflect faith, hope, and the power of positive thinking. Known for his uplifting messages and motivational teachings, he emphasizes possibility, confidence, and perseverance in overcoming obstacles. His words inspire belief in one’s potential, offering motivational quotes, inspirational quotes, positive quotes, and life quotes that encourage optimism, resilience, and purposeful living.
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” – Robert H. Schuller
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” – Robert H. Schuller
“God’s delays are not God’s denials.” – Robert H. Schuller
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” – Robert H. Schuller
“I love my son and am proud of my son.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Turn your scars into stars.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Life is but a moment, death also is but another.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“We all know that a church is not a building.” – Robert H. Schuller
“What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.” – Robert H. Schuller
“God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.” – Robert H. Schuller
“It takes guts to get out of the ruts.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Winning starts with beginning.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church.” – Robert H. Schuller
“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Jesus never called a human being a sinner.” – Robert H. Schuller
“When you can’t solve the problem, manage it.” – Robert H. Schuller
“I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.” – Robert H. Schuller
“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.” – Robert H. Schuller
“A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.” – Robert H. Schuller
“You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.” – Robert H. Schuller
“You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn’t want to.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“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
“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
“I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert H. Schuller
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” – Robert H. Schuller
“The Roman Catholic Church isn’t going to change its theologies.” – Robert H. Schuller
“The real minister’s name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don’t know how to quit.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.” – Robert H. Schuller
“I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, ‘Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'” – Robert H. Schuller
“How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it’s called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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
“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
“If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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!” – Robert H. Schuller
“You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.” – Robert H. Schuller
“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.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.” – Robert H. Schuller