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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

Charles R. Swindoll

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Beautiful Break Confusion God Inspirational
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.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Choice Exercise God Himself Natural Spiritual Thinking Trust
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Acceptance Control Discover Divine Dry Fact God Hard Hope Season Yourself
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?’
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Appearance Choice Clothes Doctor Yourself
Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don’t waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Blame Flow Forgiveness Life Live Love Need Offense Quick Wasted Time Willing
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Acceptance Control Discover Divine Dry Fact God Hard Hope Season Yourself
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Difficult God Himself Love Person Prayer Yourself
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.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Battle Consistency Jewel Win Worth
We shouldn’t deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Focus Live Ourselves Pain
Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Change Choice Pay Praise Prayer Strength Trust
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.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Faith Himself Integrity Patience Stand Trust Wait
One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Enjoyment Problem Worry Yourself
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.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Breathe Capacity Change Day Dreams Encouragement Human Inspirational Life Man Power Thinking Transformation Woman
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Beautiful Hard Time Inspirational Motivational Root Strong Wind
The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Accomplishment God Greatness Himself Impossible Situation Work
It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Believe Enough God Yourself

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