Top 300 Charles R. Swindoll Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

202. “Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

203. “A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

204. “The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

205. “Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity – bravery – respect – freedom – discipline – sacrifice – godliness.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

206. “Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

207. “Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you’re too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

208. “The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

209. “When the Lord makes it clear you’re to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

210. “The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God’s responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have – even if it’s no more than a sack lunch.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

211. “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

212. “When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

213. “God’s word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we’ll never make it through.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

214. “Sometimes people can’t see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

215. “God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

216. “When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

217. “I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

218. “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

219. “With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It’s time to march forward! Let’s be confident and positive!”

— Charles R. Swindoll

220. “We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

221. “A “godly” person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

222. “When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

223. “If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

224. “God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

225. “I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today’s time. I wouldn’t go back if I could.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

226. “Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, “to be divided” or “distracted.” It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

227. “What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His – completely.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

228. “Authentic men aren’t afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they’re sad, admit it when they’re wrong, and ask for help when they need it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

229. “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 R. Swindoll

230. “When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

231. “People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

232. “No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

233. “It’s the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

234. “In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

235. “I believe firmly in God’s control in life.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

236. “One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

237. “Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

238. “For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...”

— Charles R. Swindoll

239. “Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

240. “Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

241. “Next time you’re faced with a credit-purchase decision, wait. Don’t say no necessarily. Just wait. I challenge you to present your need to the Lord before presenting it to a bank, and see what He does with it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

242. “More often than not, when something looks like it’s the absolute end, it is really the beginning.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

243. “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

244. “Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

245. “Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life’s trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

246. “Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

247. “Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother’s inspiration?”

— Charles R. Swindoll

248. “Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

249. “When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

250. “Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.”

— Charles R. Swindoll