Charles Stanley Quotes

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

I don't think God's through with me.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.

I don't think God's through with me.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.