You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLWhen Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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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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Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.
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Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
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Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.
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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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Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
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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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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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God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense.
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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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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.
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Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.
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