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1. A Chance To Start Anew

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Charles Swindoll

Thomas Edison invented the microphone, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the storage battery, talking movies, and more than 1000 other things. December 1914 he had worked for 10 years on a storage battery. This had greatly strained his finances. This particular evening spontaneous combustion had broken out in the film room. Within minutes all the packing compounds, celluloid for records and ...

2. A Cluster of Adjustments

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Charles Swindoll

Author Edgar Jackson poignantly describes grief: Grief is a young widow trying to raise her three children, alone. Grief is the man so filled with shocked uncertainty and confusion that he strikes out at the nearest person. Grief is a mother walking daily to a nearby cemetery to stand quietly and alone a few minutes before going about the tasks of the day. She knows that part of her is in the ceme...

3. A Cultural Shift in Decline

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Charles Swindoll

Sociologist and historian Carle Zimmerman, in his 1947 book Family and Civilization, recorded his keen observations as he compared the disintegration of various cultures with the parallel decline of family life in those cultures. Eight specific patterns of domestic behavior typified the downward spiral of each culture Zimmerman studied. Marriage loses its sacredness...is frequently broken by divo...

4. A Little Privacy Please

Mark 6:30-56

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Charles Swindoll

A research psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health was convinced he could prove his theory from a cage full of mice. His name? Dr. John Calhoun. His theory? Overcrowded conditions take a terrible toll on humanity. Dr. Calhoun built a nine-foot square cage for selected mice. He observed them closely as their population grew. He started with eight mice. The cage was designed to conta...

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.

Charles Swindoll

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

Charles Swindoll

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles Swindoll

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

Charles Swindoll

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Charles Swindoll

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles Swindoll

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.

Charles Swindoll

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles Swindoll

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

Charles Swindoll

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Charles Swindoll

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Charles Swindoll

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Charles Swindoll

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

Charles Swindoll

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.

Charles Swindoll

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Charles Swindoll

True patience is waiting without worrying.

Charles Swindoll

Sign in Ken Stabler's boat: "Get in, sit down, shut up, hang on." Like many marriages.

Charles Swindoll

Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue.

Charles Swindoll

Every problem is an opportunity to prove God's power. Every day we encounter countless golden opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insurmountable problems.

Charles Swindoll

Worry pulls tomorrow's cloud over today's sunshine.

Charles Swindoll

Ten years ago, for every wife who left her family, 600 husbands did. Today for each man who leaves, two women do.

Charles Swindoll

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