Charles Stanley Quotes

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.

We have opportunities to be used by the living God on a daily basis and I don't need the platform of a concert hall to do so.

I feel it's God's work to convey a message.

After I fulfilled my Warners contract, I really wanted to go deeper into what the Lord wanted me to do.

The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.

The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

God is putting me in a position to affect people.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.