10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLMake 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
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you’re not.
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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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Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, “Lord, this is Your battle.”
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Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
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It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day – not I.
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Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity.
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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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One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.
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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.
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When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
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God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense.
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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 stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
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Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.
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