Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

We are in charge of our attitudes.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.

It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

God's timing is always on time.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.

No pressure is greater than God's power.

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

Choose to view life through God's eyes.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.