Charles Stanley Quotes

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Trust is the first step to love.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

Love is the bond of perfection.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

Faith is pretty much the essence of mine and Grace's being.

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Freedom, my friend, can only be found in His grace.

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

Love is an act of faith.

It's about us. It's about trust.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.