Robert H. Schuller Quotes
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I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
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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.
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Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
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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.
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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.
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Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.
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If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.
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Jesus never called a human being a sinner.
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You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.
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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.
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Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
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Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.
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What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
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Tough times never last, but tough people do.
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Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
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You won't win if you don't begin.
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If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
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Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.
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I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!
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Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.