Quotes from Charles Stanley

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

The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

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.

Jesus is our Advocate before God.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

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.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

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

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

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.

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.

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.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

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.

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.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

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.