Robert H. Schuller
28 quotes
Biography
Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author. Over five decades, Schuller pastored his church in Garden Grove, California starting in 1955.
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."
"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."
"A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love."
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
"Tough times never last. Tough people do"
"The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies."
"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."
"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless."
"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."
"God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years."
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."
"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."
"You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem."
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."
"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."
"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."
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation."
"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible."
"Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed."
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
"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."
"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."
"If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul."