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.”

“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.”

“The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not 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.”

“Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.”

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

“God's delays are not God's denials.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Life is but a moment, death also is but another.”

“Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.”

“I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”