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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

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Charles R. Swindoll
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: October 18
Clergyman
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El Campo
Texas
Charles Rozell Swindoll
Charles R. Swindoll
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...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.
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When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
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