Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, “Lord, this is Your battle.”
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More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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No pressure is greater than God’s power.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
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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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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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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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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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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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The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith – which He has given – and then push it open and walk through.
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Don’t get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.
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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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10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
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The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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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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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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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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Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.
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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.
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We shouldn’t deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.
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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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We really shouldn’t look like a church.’ I’ve heard that so much I want to vomit. ‘Why?’ I ask. ‘Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor’s office to look like a doctor’s office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?’
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.
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God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
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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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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.
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Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.
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