Charles Stanley Quotes

• God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Arrogant, Immoral

• Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Talented, Erosion

• In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else’s sake – to abandon our own desires and put our child’s interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Position, Abandon

• There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you’ll stand firm if you stand on His love.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genuine, Storms

• Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Privilege, Motherhood

• The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Devotion, Transform

• Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worrying, Heavenly

• Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there’s a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Discouraged, Discouragement

• He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Faith, Around, Loving

• We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in God

  Tags in Strength, Emotionally

• A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it’s a spiritual fight.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spiritual, Fight, Christian

• God’s voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in God

  Tags in Voice, Easily

• An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Learned, Man

• Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Important, Attention

• Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Future, God

  Tags in Moment

• We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in God, Truth

  Tags in Process

• I’m convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that’s not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Learned, Convinced

• The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word, Face

• To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God’s responses.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in God

  Tags in Response, Heart

• The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in God

  Tags in Best, Religious

Charles Stanley (66)

Birth:	25th September, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Pastor, Televangelist, Theologian

About

Charles Frazier Stanley was born in Dry Fork, Virginia. He is an American author, pastor, televangelist and theologian. He is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in northern Atlanta, Georgia. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond. He later obtained his Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Fort Worth, Texas. Lastly, he received his masters and doctorate degrees, both in theology – Th.M. and Th.D., respectively – from Luther Rice Seminary, in Florida. As a young pastor, he was given the motivational book Think and Grow Rich.

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