"There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak."
-Charles R. Swindoll
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"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 R. Swindoll
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"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."
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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
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"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."
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"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
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"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."
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