Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

God's way is better than your way. His plan is bigger than your plan. His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling, better than you've ever dreamed of. Now stay open and let God do it His way.

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

God has called us to SHINE, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants YOU to do is to use the influence YOU have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was FAITHFUL and used what he had.

I think that once you lose your fear, and understand that your position is God-given, then, if you lose your fear of what man can do, it enables you to do some things that God wants you to do.

Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.