Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.

God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.

The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.