Charles Stanley Quotes
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
Quotes to Explore
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I trust no one totally.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
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When you become a mother, it's your mission in life to protect your child. I therefore can't imagine what a hell it must be crossing the sea with a crying child on your lap without any certainty of making it to the other side alive.
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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
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So many opportunities are born from not asking permission.
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Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
