Time & Perspective Quote by Robert H. Schuller

Impossibility gets demoted here from a hard wall to a moving target, and that’s the whole point. Schuller’s line doesn’t argue with facts so much as with mood: it’s built to loosen the grip of resignation. By staging time as a conveyor belt - dream, hope, reality - he gives progress a reassuring choreography. The future isn’t random; it’s a story with a plot. That narrative confidence is the rhetorical engine, especially for an audience that feels stuck.

As a televangelist-era clergyman, Schuller worked in a distinctly American register where spiritual uplift and self-help optimism shared a pulpit. The quote carries that DNA. It’s not about mysticism; it’s about motivation. “Difficult to say what is impossible” is a gentle rebuke to cynicism, but it’s also a permission slip: if you can reclassify your “dream” as “hope,” you’re already halfway to treating it like a plan. The language subtly shifts responsibility onto the listener - your outlook becomes the gatekeeper of what can happen next.

The subtext is pragmatic and pastoral: people need a usable framework for endurance. By redefining “impossible” as merely “not yet,” Schuller offers comfort without dwelling on suffering, a hallmark of his broader message of positive thinking. The risk, of course, is that structural barriers - poverty, illness, discrimination - get rhetorically flattened into attitude problems. Still, the line works because it sells momentum. It turns time into an ally, and doubt into an outdated prediction.