Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

What can't be helped must be endured.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

What can't be changed must be endured.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

Bear calamities with meekness.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.