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Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. -- Robert H. Schuller
When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help! -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts ... You can't let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control your future decisions. -- Robert H. Schuller
Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems. -- Robert H. Schuller
God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity. -- Robert H. Schuller
I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again. -- Robert H. Schuller
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. -- Robert H. Schuller
We are born to soar. We are children of God ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ ... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success. -- Robert H. Schuller
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed. -- Robert H. Schuller
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time. -- Robert H. Schuller
Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person. -- Robert H. Schuller
It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive. -- Robert H. Schuller
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. -- Robert H. Schuller
I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind.. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me. -- Robert H. Schuller
Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow. -- Robert H. Schuller
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. -- Robert H. Schuller
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
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! -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God. -- 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. -- Robert H. Schuller
If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society! -- Robert H. Schuller
Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen. -- Robert H. Schuller
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.' -- Robert H. Schuller
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. -- Robert H. Schuller
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry. -- Robert H. Schuller
Life is but a moment, death also is but another. -- Robert H. Schuller
Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing. -- Robert H. Schuller
Faith is the courage to face reality with hope. -- Robert H. Schuller
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. -- Robert H. Schuller
Winning starts with beginning. -- Robert H. Schuller
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. -- Robert H. Schuller
Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly. -- Robert H. Schuller
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. -- Robert H. Schuller
What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road. -- Robert H. Schuller
We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality. -- Robert H. Schuller
The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude. -- Robert H. Schuller
Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying. -- Robert H. Schuller
I love my son and am proud of my son. -- Robert H. Schuller
The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us. -- Robert H. Schuller
How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air. -- Robert H. Schuller
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! -- Robert H. Schuller
Tough times never last, but tough people do. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. -- Robert H. Schuller
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution. -- Robert H. Schuller
God's delays are not God's denials. -- 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. -- Robert H. Schuller
You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear. -- Robert H. Schuller
Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will. -- Robert H. Schuller
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities -- Robert H. Schuller
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -- Robert H. Schuller
Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth. -- Robert H. Schuller
Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow. -- Robert H. Schuller
Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination. -- Robert H. Schuller
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'. -- Robert H. 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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success. -- Robert H. Schuller
I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church. -- Robert H. Schuller
When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow. -- Robert H. Schuller
Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed. -- Robert H. Schuller
You are what you think about all day long. -- Robert H. Schuller
A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. -- Robert H. Schuller
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books. -- Robert H. Schuller
Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego. -- Robert H. Schuller
For every mountain, there is a miracle. -- Robert H. Schuller
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. -- Robert H. Schuller
Every problem has a limited life span. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride. -- Robert H. Schuller
Through faith, the weak times can become peak times. -- Robert H. Schuller
All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem. -- Robert H. Schuller
Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. -- Robert H. Schuller
Inch by inch, it's a cinch. -- Robert H. Schuller
I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference. -- Robert H. Schuller
Jesus never called a human being a sinner. -- Robert H. Schuller
You didn't think that when you got up this morning that this would be the day your life would change did you? But it's going to happen because the only thing that stands between you and grand success are getting started and not stopping. -- Robert H. Schuller
It takes guts to get out of the ruts. -- Robert H. Schuller
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert H. Schuller
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
When you can't solve the problem, manage it. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. -- Robert H. Schuller
Impossible situations can become possible miracles. -- Robert H. Schuller
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. -- Robert H. Schuller
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. -- Robert H. Schuller
Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved. -- Robert H. Schuller
Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles. -- Robert H. Schuller
Turn your scars into stars. -- Robert H. Schuller
If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution. -- Robert H. Schuller
Now - find God's dream for your life and go all out for it! -- Robert H. Schuller
The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water. -- Robert H. Schuller
You know how many seeds are in an apple. But you don't know how many apples are in a seed. -- Robert H. Schuller
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. -- Robert H. Schuller
Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Daring to dream means daring to live. -- Robert H. Schuller
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. -- Robert H. Schuller
Tough times never last. Tough people do -- Robert H. Schuller
Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart. -- Robert H. Schuller
What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory. -- Robert H. Schuller
Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. -- Robert H. Schuller
Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress! -- Robert H. Schuller
The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity. -- Robert H. Schuller
There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream...you! -- Robert H. Schuller
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. -- Robert H. Schuller
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. -- Robert H. Schuller
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert H. Schuller
Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt. -- Robert H. Schuller
Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts. -- Robert H. Schuller
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed. -- Robert H. Schuller
It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly. -- Robert H. Schuller
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert H. Schuller
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. -- Robert H. Schuller
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -- Robert H. Schuller
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. -- Robert H. Schuller
Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles. -- Robert H. Schuller
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. -- Robert H. Schuller
I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible. -- Robert H. Schuller
We all know that a church is not a building. -- Robert H. Schuller
The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
Build a dream and the dream will build you. -- Robert H. Schuller
Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse. -- Robert H. Schuller
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. -- Robert H. Schuller
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it. -- Robert H. Schuller
Be the artist you were born to be. -- Robert H. Schuller
Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it. -- Robert H. Schuller
You won't win if you don't begin. -- Robert H. Schuller
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. -- Robert H. Schuller
We are the Love, loving. -- Robert H. Schuller
