Charles Stanley Quotes
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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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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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I have no trouble sleeping.
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
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Ask God for the grace to live for Him and continue to live in Him. Right now, surrender it all to Him.
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One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.
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When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
