Charles Swindoll Quotes

If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment ~ Charles Swindoll

[Moses] dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the God whose will it was. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

The secret lies in how we handle today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Today... that special block of time holding the key that locks out yesterday's nightmares and unlocks tomorrow's dreams. ~ Charles Swindoll

Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition. ~ Charles Swindoll

You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Power to Overcome Apply your heart to discipline and your ears to words of knowledge. PROVERBS 23:12 Can't and won't. Christians need to be very careful which one they choose. It seems that we prefer to use "can't." "I just can't get along with my wife." "My husband and I can't communicate." "I just can't discipline the kids as I should." "I just can't give up the affair I'm having." "I can't stop overeating." "I can't find time to pray." Any Christian who takes the Bible seriously will have to agree the word here really should be "won't." Why? Because we have been given the power, the ability to overcome ... We're really saying "I won't," because we don't choose to say "With the help of God, I will!" Day by Day with Charles Swindoll ~ Charles R. Swindoll

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

To make a lasting impact on the world's system, one must be distinct from it, not identical to it. ~ Charles Swindoll

When God's in it, the job gets done. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. ~ John Charles Polanyi

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience. ~ Charles Bartlett Johnson

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards! ~ Charles Spurgeon

A pleasurable and excited state of mind, associated with affection, is exhibited by some dogs in a very peculiar manner, namely, by grinning. ~ Charles Darwin

Dana?' [asked Garson].
She nodded to show him she was listening.
'Why does he call you Scully all the time? I mean, you do have a first name.'
'Because he can,' she answered simply, without sarcasm, and didn't bother to explain. Just as it would be hard to explain why Mulder was, without question, the best friend she had. It was more than just being partners, being able to rely on each other when one of them was in danger, or when one of them needed a boost when a case seemed to be going bad; and it was more than simply their contrasting styles, which, perversely to some, complemented each other perfectly.
What it was, she sometimes thought, was an indefinable instinct, a silent signal that let her know that whatever else changed, whatever else happened, Mulder would always be there when he had to be. One way or another. ~ Charles Grant

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. ~ Charles Kennedy

The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much. ~ Charles Platt

The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.) ~ Charles De Leusse

Nobody ain't going to lay a finger on you, missus," said Merrick. "Not while me and my lord are standing. You tell Mr. Day about it and don't worry no more"
"Since when did you talk to law?" demanded Leonora in Shanghainese.
"Since his nobility's fucking it. Youe want the shortarse on your side. ~ K.J. Charles

[Reason tells me of the] extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capability of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist. ~ Charles Darwin

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. ~ Charles Jencks

They did what they did, and moved forward despite whatever trail of ashes they left behind. ~ Charles Frazier

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. ~ Charles Evers

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. ~ Charles Barkley

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. ~ Charles Stanley

Don't take me for granted. I know more than I let on, see more than you realize., and care more than you can imagine. ~ Charles F. Glassman

Have you seen the mummies at the British Museum?"
"The Egyptian ones? No, not yet. But they have a similar thing in China."
"Did you ever imagine if they started moving? Withered hands reaching towards you and sunken eyes staring?"
"I didn't, but now I know what I'll be dreaming about tonight. ~ K.J. Charles

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. ~ Charles Kettering

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away. ~ Charles De Lint

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery! ~ Charles Dickens

While modern evangelical Christianity has undeniable historical roots, its explosion over the past thirty years is a triumph of the Gospel According to Wal-Mart. ~ Charles P. Pierce

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest Christian possesses more than the richest unbeliever. You shall set before me now the pauper who is a believer, and the emperor who has no faith in Christ, and I am convinced that the poor, aged pauper would not exchange her lot thought the imperial purple should be offered her. She would refuse to leave her Savior though the worldwere offered her. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham. ~ John Charles Polanyi

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value, ~ Charles Koch

Animals shouldn't be hunted and nature shouldn't be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind ~ Charles Manson

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. ~ Charles Simic

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I have no quarrel with democrats in principle, except that they are as much frauds and liars as the rest. It is often said that mankind will not be free till the last king is strangled with the guts of the last priest; if you ask me, the man who ordered the strangling would promptly step forth to proclaim himself Lord Protector, and it would all begin again. ~ K.J. Charles

Yawn...

I believe that I love sleep
much more than anybody I've ever
met.
I have the ability to sleep for
2 or 3 days and
nights.
I will go to bed at any given
moment.
I often confused my girlfriends
this way -
say it would be about onethirty
in the afternoon:
"well, I'm going to bed now, I'm
going to sleep…"
most of them wouldn't mind, they
would go to bed with me
thinking I was hinting for
sex
but I would just turn my back
and snore off.
this, of course, could explain
why so many of my girlfriends
left me.
as for doctors, they were never
any help:

"listen, I have this desire to
go to bed and sleep, almost all
the time.
what is wrong with
me?"
"do you get enough exercise?"
"yes…"
"are you getting enough
nourishment?"
"yes…"
they always handed me a
prescription
which I threw away
between the office and the
parking lot.
it's a curious malady
because I can't sleep between
6 p.m. and midnight.
it must occur after
midnight
and when I arise
it can never be
before noon.
and should the phone ring
say at 10:30 a.m.
I go into a mad rage
don't even ask who the caller
is
scream into the
phone: "WHAT ARE YOU

CALLING ME FOR AT THIS
HOUR!"
hang
up…
every person, I suppose, has ~ Charles Bukowski

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize
any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

The key to victory was creating the right routines. ~ Charles Duhigg

Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age. ~ Charles Duhigg

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I can sit down and vomit on the
keys
but it's my
vomit.
it's better than sitting in a room
with 3 or 4 people and
their pianos.
this is my piano
and it is better than theirs. ~ Charles Bukowski

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? ~ Charles De Lint

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around. ~ Charles Schwab

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it. ~ Charles Dickens

If the building's still standing when we've finished then we've failed. ~ Charles Gayle

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent. ~ Charles A. Beard

There is enough in Christ for all my necessities; let me not be slow to avail myself of Him. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. ~ Charles Dickens

Change lays her hand not upon the truth. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne