Robert H. Schuller
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.Collection: Easter
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.Collection: Wisdom
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.Collection: God
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.Collection: Success
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.Collection: Motivational
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.Collection: Business
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.Collection: Future
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Patience
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.Collection: Motivational
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.Collection: Truth
Tough times never last, but tough people do.Collection: Time
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.Collection: Money
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Collection: Death
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?Collection: Inspirational
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.Collection: Failure
God's delays are not God's denials.Collection: God
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.Collection: Chance
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.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Marriage
Turn your scars into stars.
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
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.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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.
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.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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.'
Jesus never called a human being a sinner.
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
I love my son and am proud of my son.
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
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.
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.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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.
I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.