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 More Quotes by Robert H. Schuller More Quotes From 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 honesty important prayer The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride. Robert H. Schuller pride self-esteem perfect 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 hunger recognition needs Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication. Robert H. Schuller communication self-esteem religious 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 royalty my-family church The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us. Robert H. Schuller subconscious conscious knows 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. Robert H. Schuller catholic communication reflection Big egos have little ears. Robert H. Schuller ego ears listening Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert H. Schuller signs stop problems motivational 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 problem hurt success people 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 god heart bible children I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart. Robert H. Schuller good caring humble heart 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 marriage mother father children Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' Robert H. Schuller walk shadow fear death 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 think cancer emotional body