Chuck Swindoll Quotes

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If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

Chuck Swindoll
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

Chuck Swindoll
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Chuck Swindoll
I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

Chuck Swindoll
The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.

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Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

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Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Chuck Swindoll
Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

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Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

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Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

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What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.

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When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

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Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

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The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

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God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.

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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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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.

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Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

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Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

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When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.

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With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

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Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

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The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

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There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.

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It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

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Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

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Dream big... don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.

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Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

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People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

Chuck Swindoll
God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

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