Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

No man who has brought himself back from what might have been an entire life of invalidism to strength, and activity, physical and mental and spiritual can ever be accused of preaching or exemplifying a mollycoddle philosophy.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

And when things get tough, trust there is a bigger plan and that you will be stronger for it.

I admire anyone who can show they can dig deep. Ballesteros and Sergio Garcia, people who are obviously mentally strong. Or Graham Thorpe. He is your fighter. He's the kid who is bullied at school but will stand up in a fight when it matters.

The pressure, for me, is not important. I was born with pressure. The pressure is not important for me.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.