Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

God has plans, not problems for our lives.

Accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

Faith is all about trusting God even when you don't understand His plan.

God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.

But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

God has high plans for you and me.

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.

Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.