Envy 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?
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLGod also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.
More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
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The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity.
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Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.
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Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
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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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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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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.
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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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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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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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Friends make life a lot more fun.
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When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until He says, ‘Go.
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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 cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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No pressure is greater than God’s power.
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