Quotes from Robert H. Schuller


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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.


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.


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.


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


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


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


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


Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.


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.


Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.


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


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.


Turn your scars into stars.


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.


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


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


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


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


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


Tough times never last, but tough people do.