Top 300 Charles R. Swindoll Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “A selfless devotion. High-impact people don’t care about who gets the credit, and they never complain about the role they fill.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

252. “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

253. “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

254. “One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit – boom! – and I’m down and out. What a way to die!”

— Charles R. Swindoll

255. “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

256. “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

257. “As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

258. “You won’t find God at the Seminary and you won’t find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

259. “While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

260. “Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing’s good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!”

— Charles R. Swindoll

261. “Unfair suffering is never funny.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

262. “People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

263. “It was Sir Winston Churchill, in the midst of Nazi bombings, who said to the people of London, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.“′ He was the one who offered the best definition of success I’ve ever read: “Success is moving from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

264. “Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

265. “When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

266. “I am often the brunt of my own humor.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

267. “It’s easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

268. “I don’t have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

269. “Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

270. “We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

271. “Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

272. “When it seems like that’s all there is, remember all you have in Him.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

273. “The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

274. “When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord’s, we waste no time arguing for our own.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

275. “Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

276. “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

277. “A warning is in order. Reject any teaching that even suggests material wealth, physical health, or favorable circumstances have anything to do with the amount of faith you have or how pleased God happens to be with you. And beware those who teach that financial donations will unlock an endless abundance of God’s blessings. They are false shepherds who will rob you of your money and destroy your relationship with God. The “faith” they proclaim is a toxic faith.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

278. “We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

279. “Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

280. “I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

281. “Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

282. “If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you’re in the wrong calling.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

283. “Have you ever studied Jesus’s approach to talking with people? He didn’t always fill the space with answers for them. Let’s learn to do that with our fellow learners. Let’s give them room to think and answer for themselves.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

284. “I’m not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don’t like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader’s sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

285. “There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

286. “The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God – not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice. – A. W. Tozer3.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

287. “The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don’t want to do-and make them like doing it!”

— Charles R. Swindoll

288. “All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

289. “Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

290. “God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

291. “Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

292. “Grace is ours. Let’s live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

293. “It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

294. “Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you’d better do it; He always has a reason.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

295. “Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

296. “We want the safety of yesterday even though we know it’s not where God would have us.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

297. “If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

298. “We don’t like waiting, but that’s when God does some of His best work on our souls.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

299. “God gave laws to His people to bless them, not to burden them. Every rule either elevates the quality of human life or restores one’s relationship with God after a breach. He makes no extraneous demands and He is never capricious.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

300. “Yet, those who are truly honest and humble enough to admit the truth come to the end of their earthly lives acknowledging that they have barely scratched the surface.”

— Charles R. Swindoll