Chuck Swindoll Quotes

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A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.

Chuck Swindoll
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

Chuck Swindoll
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.

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And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

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We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

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When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

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Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

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Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

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God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

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When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

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There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely 'logging time' in God's family.

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Our great tendency in this age is to increase our speed, to run faster, even in the Christian life. In the process our walk with God stays shallow, and our tank runs low on fumes. Intimacy offers a full tank of fuel that can only be found by pulling up closer to God, which requires taking necessary time and going to the effort to make that happen.

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Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

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Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

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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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It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

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I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

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Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

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While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

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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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Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

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God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely on His wounded Son will experience relief.

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Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

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When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

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To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

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You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.

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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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When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.

Chuck Swindoll
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

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