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The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

Charles R. Swindoll

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
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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Burn Faith Light Person Torch Yourself
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
Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life’s trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.
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Ability Focus God Intense Life Natural Past Peace Religious Result Stability Style
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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Best Change Desire God Introduction Ourselves Surprise Work
Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.
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Believe Different Grace Life Live
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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Breathe Capacity Change Day Dreams Encouragement Human Inspirational Life Man Power Thinking Transformation Woman
I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Adversity Attention Guard Spirit Yourself
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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Believe Complication Eyes Himself Human Lesson Limitation Ourselves Simplicity Son Word
Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
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Encouragement God Hope Life Ourselves Religious Stability Storm
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
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Achievement Attitude Big Development Excellence Habit Yourself
Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
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Change Day Encouragement Inspirational Life Person
Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
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Direction Discipline God Peace Religion Strength Wisdom Yourself
Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.
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Attitude Belief Choice Compassionate Faith Joy
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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Choice Exercise God Himself Natural Spiritual Thinking Trust
Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

End Forever Inspirational Night Opportunity Possible Quiet Repeat Unique

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