Charles Stanley Quotes

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it.

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.

You cannot escape anxiety … but I have faith that you will rise above your fears.

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.