Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Preach in your own house and to your own company

Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding.

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.

Don't let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.

The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

The administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.