Quotes from Charles Swindoll

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.