Quotes

“Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.” Charles Swindoll

“Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.” Charles Swindoll

“It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.” Charles Swindoll

“We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.” Charles Swindoll

“I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.” Charles Swindoll

“When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.” Charles Swindoll

“You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.” Charles Swindoll

“As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.” Charles Swindoll

“I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.” Charles Swindoll

“If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.” Charles Swindoll

“Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.” Charles Swindoll

“One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!” Charles Swindoll

“There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.” Charles Swindoll

“'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'” Charles Swindoll

“When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.” Charles Swindoll

“While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.” Charles Swindoll

“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Tennyson

“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.” Alfred Tennyson

“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” Alfred Tennyson

“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.” Alfred Tennyson

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” Alfred Tennyson

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” Alfred Tennyson

“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” Alfred Tennyson

“Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.” Alfred Tennyson

“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” Alfred Tennyson

“Love is the only gold.” Alfred Tennyson

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” Alfred Tennyson

“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.” Alfred Tennyson

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” Alfred Tennyson

“I am a part of all that I have met.” Alfred Tennyson