Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLEnvy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people’s unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets
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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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Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity.
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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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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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Don’t seek more days in your life but more life in your days.
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Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.
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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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No pressure is greater than God’s power.
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No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.
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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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If we choose to be offended when we don’t get our own way, Then we’re going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, ” A merry heart does good like a medicine,” It’ll make all the difference in the world.
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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.
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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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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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