Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.

My parents instilled something greater than myself. They instilled faith in me.

I knew religion from an early age.

I grew up very religious.

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

When I was young, I was religious.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

I speak to God every day.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I have always had a deep connection with my faith, and I was fortunate to have been brought up in a Christian environment. My faith is a very important part of who I am.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.