Top 100 Charles Stanley Quotes
#1. When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
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#2. When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.
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#3. The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.
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#4. The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
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#5. We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.
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#6. Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.
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#7. Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
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#8. If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.
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#9. Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
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#10. Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
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#11. His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
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#12. 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.
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#15. We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
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#16. Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
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#17. Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
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#18. You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.
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#19. If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
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#20. Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
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#21. Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.
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#22. Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.
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#23. Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
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#24. The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
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#25. Brokenness is God's requirement for maximum usefulness.
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#26. Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.
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#27. From the world's perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand to catch your tears and a heart to listen to your every longing. True peace comes only from God.
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#28. If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.
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#30. When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.
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#31. God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
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#32. A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
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#33. One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
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#35. Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
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#36. Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
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#37. Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.
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#38. When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.
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#39. The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it
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#40. If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
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#41. Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.
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#42. Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
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#43. God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ... "
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#44. God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.
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#45. Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
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#46. Discipline is something we despise for the moment ... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.
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#47. The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.
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#48. The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
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#49. As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
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#50. God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
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#52. When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
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#53. The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God.
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#54. It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.
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#55. To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.
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#56. The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
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#57. Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.
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#58. The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
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#60. Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
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#61. Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
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#62. The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body of Christ, to encourage others in the proper use of their finances, and to make the extension of the Gospel possible.
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#63. Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.
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#64. The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?
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#65. Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.
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#66. Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.
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#68. Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.
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#69. The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
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#70. Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?
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#71. You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God ... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
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#72. As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.
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#73. As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.
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#74. You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial - but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.
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#75. God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
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#76. When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
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#78. One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
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#79. Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.
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#81. Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
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#82. Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.
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#83. God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
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#84. People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
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#85. God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
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#86. Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
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#87. Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
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#88. On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous ... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
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#89. God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
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#90. Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.
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#91. 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.
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#92. 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.
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#93. If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.
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#94. Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
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#95. No matter how far we may wander from the Lord's perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.
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#96. When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
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#97. Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.
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#98. God's Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He's promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He's told you.
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#99. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
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#100. Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
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