Top 300 Charles R. Swindoll Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Sound advice comes from veterans of pain.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

202. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

207. “God declared me righteous!”

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

224. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

232. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

234. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

237. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

239. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

243. “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

244. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

247. “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

248. “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

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Charles R. Swindoll