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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

Charles R. Swindoll

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Charles R. Swindoll
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: October 18
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El Campo
Texas
Charles Rozell Swindoll
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God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely on His wounded Son will experience relief.
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Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
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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.
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There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.
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Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.
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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.
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No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.
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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.
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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced you're taught it.
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When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
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First impressions never have a second chance.
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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.
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The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.
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Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
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It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.
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We want the safety of yesterday even though we know it's not where God would have us.
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Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.
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