Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people’s unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLFaith 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.
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn’t lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
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People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
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The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it.
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The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.
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[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.
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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.
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God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
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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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Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
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If God’s people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be – it must be – compassion.
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Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.
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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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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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