"If I ever wrote a book on..." - Quote by Charles R Swindoll

“First impressions never have a second chance.”

“Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.”

“Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.”

“We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.”

“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.”

“A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.”

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.”

“Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.”