Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Christian life means sacrifice.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Obviously, with my faith, too, I don't want to seem like it's all about me, me, me. It takes away from what I do for Him, for the Lord.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Even though I am playing against others, and it is important to get there and win, I believe that Jesus is much more important than all of that.

Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

If you look at the life of Jesus, that's an example of true worship. You know look at the stories, if you want to learn about real worship read Matthew through John. Seriously. You just read it and you will see the true level. You see when Jesus is in the boat and the storm comes when it comes and the winds are blowing and Jesus is sleeping in the boat and the disciples are freaking out. And Jesus wakes up and says "What you guys got is a problem, no?" and he commands the seas to be calm that's true worship.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.