Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I always have issues with trust.

Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.

I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

So immediately I'm trying to think: What are some of these times when we feel we're losing our hold on Christ, and what's the fear we're trying to address? I try to get into that quickly.

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.