183 Quotes by Charles F. Stanley

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

We learn more in our mountain experiences than on our mountaintops.

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.

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

This is an important concept as we look into the idea of forgiveness because we see in it God’s desire to have fellowship with sinful, disobedient men and women.

And it is in times of extreme difficulty that He develops our character and strengthens us spiritually, while helping us to grow deeper in our faith in Him.

Life Lessons 4:1 – Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The Holy Spirit led Jesus to a barren place where the devil waited to tempt Him. We should never doubt God’s leading just because we run into temptation. That is often God’s way of testing us.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It’s impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

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