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...”

“God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.”

“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 liste...”

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

“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.'”

“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.”

“God's delays are not God's denials.”

“I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.”

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

“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

“It takes guts to get out of the ruts.”

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”

“There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.”

“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.”

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.”

“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 hol...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”