Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

He who believes needs no explanation.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

As for me and my house, I have no other refuge than this command of Jesus, 'Only believe' that is my refuge.

If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.