Quotes from Charles Stanley

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.