10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLEncouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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It’s a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.
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I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
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We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity.
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You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.
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Acceptance is taking from God’s hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.
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Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God’s point of view.
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God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
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The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
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People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
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Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.
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