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.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLIf you never get criticized, chances are you aren’t getting anything done.
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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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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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
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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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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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If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.
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Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn’t lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
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One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
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No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.
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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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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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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.
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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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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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The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.
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