Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

I trust God speaks through me. Without that I could not do my job.

My faith is my life. It defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions; it drives them.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?

I'm a happy member of the church. I'm proud of it and defend it. It makes me bold and gives me confidence. I feel I know the answer to life - that it's all about. If you're not searching for the answer to life, you have more time to make art. It's a rock for me upon which I can tap dance.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

This is my compass, my North Star, it gives me comfort and guidance to do what’s best for Arkansas. The Bible is not a rule book for political issues … everybody can see it differently

I always was a Christian... whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.

I believe that whatever I do, after I've asked for guidance and direction from God, that whatever the results, these are the results of His guidance.