Robert H. Schuller Quotes
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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.
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I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.
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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.
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The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.
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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.
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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.
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A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
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I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.
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Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
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Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego.
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Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.
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To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.
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Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!
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Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
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What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His children of their right to divine dignity. ... I can offer still another answer: 'Sin is any act or thought that robs myself or another human being of his or her self-esteem'.
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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
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Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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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!
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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Daring to dream means daring to live.
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Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.