Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.
Charles R. SwindollAll he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.
Charles R. Swindoll'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'
Charles R. SwindollLearning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned
Charles R. SwindollWhen Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
Charles R. SwindollYou and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.
Charles R. Swindoll