Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.

Keep your eyes on Christ, not the circumstances you find yourself in or the feelings you are experiencing.

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

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

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

God is bigger than any problem. God in you is greater than any difficulty you have to meet. God cares for you more than it is possible for any human being to realize. God can help you in proportion to the degree in which you worship him. You worship God by really putting your trust in him instead of in outer conditions, or in fear, or in depression, or in seeming dangers, and so forth. You worship God by recognizing his presence everywhere, in all people and conditions that you meet; and by praying regularly. You pray well when you pray with joy.