Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

Life is all about finding your place. All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. He'll be fine. Like the rest of us. We just need some faith.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.