Top 300 Charles R. Swindoll Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

202. “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

203. “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

204. “The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

205. “Second, always speak the truth without fear.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

206. “One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

207. “Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

208. “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 R. Swindoll

209. “Sound advice comes from veterans of pain.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

210. “Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

211. “God declared me righteous!”

— Charles R. Swindoll

212. “God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

213. “It’s a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

214. “Let me ask you, what are you planning to do with the rest of your days?”

— Charles R. Swindoll

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

229. “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

230. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

232. “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

233. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

235. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

237. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

239. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

242. “Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God’s arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don’t have to explained or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

243. “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

244. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

246. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

248. “Go God’s way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

249. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll