The Best Chuck Swindoll quotes

Choose to view life through God’s eyes. — Charles R. Swindoll

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely. — Charles R. Swindoll

Of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. — Charles R. Swindoll

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can’t be phony. We’ve got to keep it real. — Charles R. Swindoll

Friends make life a lot more fun. — Charles R. Swindoll

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity — Charles R. Swindoll

God uses those who seem ill–fitted for a significant life. — Charles R. Swindoll

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. — Charles R. Swindoll

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity. — Charles R. Swindoll

In spite of our high–tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life. — Charles R. Swindoll

Don’t seek more days in your life but more life in your days. — Charles R. Swindoll

I don’t see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It’s all an open place of service before our God. — Charles R. Swindoll

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. — Charles R. Swindoll

If I had my life to live over, I’d have spent more hours in worship. — Charles R. Swindoll

I believe firmly in God’s control in life. — Charles R. Swindoll

Joy springs from a life lived with eternity’s values in view. — Charles R. Swindoll

We shouldn’t deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys. — Charles R. Swindoll

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will. — Charles R. Swindoll

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study — Charles R. Swindoll

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back. — Charles R. Swindoll

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God’s point of view. — Charles R. Swindoll

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life. — Charles R. Swindoll

God’s timing is always on time. — Charles R. Swindoll

It’s a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today. — Charles R. Swindoll

Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently! — Charles R. Swindoll

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. — Charles R. Swindoll

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day–to–day basis is my choice of attitude… When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me. — Charles R. Swindoll

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. — Charles R. Swindoll

We are in charge of our attitudes. — Charles R. Swindoll

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don’t mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. — Charles R. Swindoll

God doesn’t work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory. — Charles R. 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 R. Swindoll

The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work. — Charles R. Swindoll

We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship. — Charles R. Swindoll

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be. — Charles R. Swindoll

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire. — Charles R. Swindoll

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us. — Charles R. Swindoll

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God. — Charles R. Swindoll

If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well. — Charles R. Swindoll

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them. — Charles R. Swindoll

It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there. — Charles R. Swindoll

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe. — Charles R. Swindoll

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone. — Charles R. Swindoll

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe. — Charles R. 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 R. Swindoll

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian. — Charles R. Swindoll

Worry erases the promises of God from your mind. — Charles R. Swindoll

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing. — Charles R. Swindoll

One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have. — Charles R. Swindoll

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His. — Charles R. Swindoll

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant. — Charles R. Swindoll

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you’re not. — Charles R. Swindoll

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth. — Charles R. Swindoll

Don’t get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily. — Charles R. Swindoll

When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until He says, ‘Go. — Charles R. Swindoll

I’m glad . . . that Edison didn’t give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying. — Charles R. Swindoll

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross. — Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes we are to guard our heart…protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart… let certain qualities out and release them to others — Charles R. Swindoll

Acceptance is taking from God’s hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving. — Charles R. Swindoll

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on. — Charles R. Swindoll

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else. — Charles R. Swindoll

Alleged ‘impossibilities’ are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. — Charles R. Swindoll

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity. — Charles R. Swindoll

Wouldn’t you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ’s own prediction, ‘I will build my church’? — Charles R. Swindoll

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him. — Charles R. Swindoll

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust. — Charles R. Swindoll

Trusting God doesn’t alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us. — Charles R. Swindoll

Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change. — Charles R. Swindoll

Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin. — Charles R. Swindoll

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don’t quit, whatever you do. Persevere. — Charles R. Swindoll

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart. — Charles R. Swindoll

What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His–completely. — Charles R. Swindoll

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It’s treasures are priceless–but they can be stolen. — Charles R. Swindoll