Quotes from Robert H. Schuller

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

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

We are the Love, loving.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

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.

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.

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

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!

I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.'

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure… it does mean you haven't succeeded yet.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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.'

Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God's walk, work God's work, fulfill God's will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.

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

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

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.