Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
-
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
-
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
-
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
-
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
-
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
-
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
-
I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
-
If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
-
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
-
If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
-
I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
-
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
-
I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
-
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
-
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
-
All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
-
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
-
I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.
-
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
-
I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
-
Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.
-
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.
