Robert H. Schuller

“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.”

“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.”

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

“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.”

“Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.”

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

“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”

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

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

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

“We all know that a church is not a building.”

“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.”

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

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

“Tough times never last. Tough people do”

“What would you do if you knew you could not fail?”

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

“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.”

“Turn your scars into stars.”