The Creator

Nature refuses to let you forget her Artist. - Chuck Swindoll

God-appointed Storms

Life is literally filled with God-appointed storms. But two things should comfort us in the midst of daily lightning and thunder and rain and wind. First, these squalls surge across everyone's horizon. Second, we all need them. God has no other method more effective. - Chuck Swindoll

Obedience

The very best proof of your love for your Lord is obedience ... nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. - Chuck Swindoll

Individual Matter

Following Christ is an individual matter. The Lord saves us individually. He gifts and commissions us individually. He speaks to us and directs us individually. When it comes to this matter of doing His will, God has not said that you must answer for anyone else except yourself. Quit looking around for equality! Stop concerning yourself with the need of others to do what you are doing. Or endure what you have been called to endure. God chooses the roles we play. Each part is unique. - Chuch Swindoll

Tears

In some mysterous way, our complex inner-communication system knows when to admit its verbal limitations ... and the tears come.

Tears are not self-conscious.

Most often they appear when our soul is overwhelmed with feelings that words cannot describe.

- Chuck Swindoll

Truth about Rumors

Rumor is a pipe

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,

And of so easy and so plain a stop

That the blunt moster with uncounted heads

The still-discordant wavering multitude

Can play upon it.

- Shakespeare, King Henry IV; II, induction, line 15)

Rumors

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls. They find satisfaction in trafficking in poorly-lit alleys, dropping subtle bombs that explode in others' minds by lighting the fuse of suggestion. They find comfort in being only an "innocent" channel of the unsure information ... never the source. - Chuck Swindoll

Heart-Genuine Friendship

Rule by the heart. When logic and argument and other forms of persuasion fail, fall back on the heart-genuine friendship. - John R. Mott

Friendliness

Friendliness is a matter of being someone ... more than it is doing something. - Chuck Swindoll

Deterioration

Deterioration is never sudden. - Chuck Swindoll

Avoiding Problems

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. - Dr. Peck

Solving Problems

... It is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct."

Fearing the pain involved, almost all of us ... attempt to avoid problems. We procastinate, forget them, pretend they do not exist. We even take drugs to assist us in ignoring them, so that by deadening ourselves to the pain we can forget the problems that cause the pain. - Scott Peck, M.D, The Road Less Traveled, p. 16

Hurry

We are in such a hurry, we hate to miss one panel of a revolving door. - Peter Marshall

Listening

It takes two people to say a thing - a sayer and a sayee. The one is just as essential to any true saying as the other. - Samuel Butler

Habits

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. - Horace Mann, American educator

Memorizing Scriptures

I know of no other single practice in the Christian life more rewarding, practically speaking, than memorizing Scripture. Your prayer life will be strengthened. Your witnessing will be sharper and much more effective. Your counseling will be in demand. Your attitudes and outlook will begin to change. Your mind will become alert and observant. Your confidence and assurance will be enhanced. Your faith will be solidified. - Chuch Swindoll

Difference between good and great

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. - Chuck Swindoll

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

Out attention spans have been conditioned by thirty-second commercials. Our sense of reality has been flattened by thirty-page abridgments.

It is not difficult in such a world to get a person interested in the message of the gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest. Millions of people in our culture make decisions for Christ, but there is a dreadful attrition rate.... In our kind of culture anything, even news about God, can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness. - Eugene Peterson

Expecting Perfection and Accepting Humanity

Its my job to love Billy. It's God's job to make him good. - Ruth Graham

Singing while speeding

If we occasionally must speed, maybe it would help to sing loudly: - Chuck Swindoll

• At 45 mph ... "God Will Take Care of You"
• At 55 mph ... "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah"
• At 65 mph ... "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
• At 75 mph ... "Nearer, Still Nearer!"
• At 85 mph ... "This World Is Not My Home"
• At 95 mph ... "Lord, I'm Coming Home"
• Over 100- ... "Precious Memories" 

Silence

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Publius, a greek sage

Keep your lips from slips

If your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: To whom you speak; of whom you speak; And how, and when, and where. - William Norris, American Journalist

A Sharp Tongue

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving

The Alluring Voice of Lust

Its (lust) alluring voice can infiltrate the most intelligent mind and cause its victim to believe its lies and respond to its appeal. - Chuck Swindoll

An old and ironic habit

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. - Rollo May

The unlovely character

‎How many prodigals are kept out of the kingdom of God by the unlovely characters of those who profess to be inside! - Henry Drummond

Deception

‎Deception comes in convincing fashion, wearing the garb of authenticity, supported by the credentials of intelligence, popularity, and even a touch of class. - Chuck Swindoll

Two essential reasons why Jesus gave His life

Jesus gave His life for two essential reasons. First, because we are sinners. Second, because we can do nothing about it. In Western cultures, that first reason is increasingly questioned and even denied. In Eastern cultures, they don't comprehend the second. - Randy Hurst, World Missions, AG