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Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can’t light the torch of another if yours isn’t burning.

Charles R. Swindoll

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Change Day Encouragement Inspirational Life Person
It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day – not I.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Control Day God Help Myself Remember
We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Attitude Choices Day Life Ourselves Reaction
God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Earth God Heaven Planning
Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Alone Attitude Challenge Dreams Faith Fire Fuel Greatness Hope Inspirational Motivation Myself Progress
When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until He says, ‘Go.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

God Himself Humility Trust Wait
The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Accomplishment God Greatness Himself Impossible Situation Work
The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith – which He has given – and then push it open and walk through.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Door Faith Goodness Happiness Himself Key Walk
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Choice Exercise God Himself Natural Spiritual Thinking Trust
Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Attitude Control Determination Inspirational Positive Situation Yourself
God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Demand God Goodness Himself Life Pressure Strength Win
If we choose to be offended when we don’t get our own way, Then we’re going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, ” A merry heart does good like a medicine,” It’ll make all the difference in the world.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Angry Difference Goodness Heart Live Medicine Way World
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.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Face Faith God Himself Problem Safety Time Trust
Anything under God’s control is never out of control.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Control Faith God Inspirational Religious
People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Action Attitude Change Inspirational People Success
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Difficult God Himself Love Person Prayer Yourself

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can’t light the torch of another if yours isn’t burning.

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