Wealth & Money Quote by Robert H. Schuller

Schuller’s line is prosperity theology with its tie loosened: not a blunt promise of riches, but a tidy inversion of the usual excuse. Money, he suggests, is the decoy problem. The real scarcity is imagination - vision with enough clarity and confidence to magnetize resources. It’s a sermon-friendly argument because it relocates agency from the market to the believer. If you’re stuck, it’s not the system; it’s your conception of what’s possible.

The phrasing does a lot of ideological work. “Somehow” is the master key: it waves away mechanics (wages, credit, gatekeepers, risk) and replaces them with a quasi-spiritual law of attraction. Cash becomes a moral fluid that “flows” toward the deserving idea, as if capital were a responsive organism rather than a set of institutions with biases and rules. That metaphor is comforting, and it’s strategic. It reassures an audience primed for self-improvement that faith, optimism, and entrepreneurial thinking are not just virtues but funding strategies.

Context matters: Schuller was a televangelist-era builder, literally, famous for ambitious projects like the Crystal Cathedral. For leaders who need people to donate, volunteer, and buy into big plans, “We don’t lack money; we lack ideas” is a recruitment pitch disguised as wisdom. It flatters the listener as a potential visionary while quietly shifting responsibility: if the dream is right, your checkbook will follow. The subtext is less about economics than about morale management - turning doubt into a solvable, internal problem and making belief itself the first investment.