All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLWe 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.
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.
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Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends
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One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.
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We aren’t just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose
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Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
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Anything under God’s control is never out of control.
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The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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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.
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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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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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Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
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Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Consistency: It’s the jewel worth wearing; It’s the anchor worth weighing; It’s the thread worth weaving; It’s a battle worth winning.
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I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
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Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.
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Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.
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God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense.
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Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
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God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn’t promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.
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God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.
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Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you’re too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy
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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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Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it’s okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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