Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

Charles R. Swindoll

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• If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

  

  Manute Bol
  • God
  • Long
  • Kids

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Important
  • Heart

• I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Country
  • Think

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Important
  • Why
  • Future

• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Perspective

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Language

• It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Important
  • Want
  • Strength

• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Eyes
  • Unique
  • Challenges

• I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Feeling
  • To Be
  • Tempt

• I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Rock

• There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Confused
  • Disappointing
  • Threatened

• Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • God
  • Important
  • Past