Charles Stanley Quotes

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Lord, help me to appreciate this woman/man without elevating her/him above you in my heart. Help me to remember that nobody can ever take your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God. Give me an undivided heart.

Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire, or the cross, or wild beasts, or the breaking of my bones, or the cutting of me to pieces, or the shattering of my whole body, yea, all the tortures of the devil - let them all come upon me, only let me enjoy my God.

Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

Are you willing to say to God that He can have whatever He wants? Do you believe that whole hearted commitment to Him is more important than any other thing or person in your life? Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter; unless it is about loving God and loving the people He has made?

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.