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Charles Stanley

Charles Frazier Stanley (born September 25, 1932) is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder and president of In Touch Ministries and also served two one-year terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1984 to 1986. He has an evangelical and dispensationalist theology.

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There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.

Adversity, Christian, Christian Inspirational, Filled, Good

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Man, Men, Praying, Prays, Preach

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

Children, God, Sovereign, Victim, Victims

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

Blood, Christian, Jesus, Thinking, Thought, Value

Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

Difference, Differences, Grace, Law, Relationship

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Events, Growth, See, Setbacks, Spiritual

The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.

Able, Avoid, God, Heart, Jesus, Speak

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

Anxiety, Jesus, Overcoming, Unknown, Valley

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

Optimistic, Adequacy, May, Problems, Stay, Circumstances

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

Children, Continually, Spiritual, Use, Watches

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

Accept, Accepting, Decision, God, Reject, Rejects You

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Awake, Baby, Day, Mom, Motherhood, Teenager

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Ability, Limit, Limits, Turn, Worst

Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.

Believe, Like, Pain, Spiritual, Surgery, Ultimate

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Adversity, Begin, Disappointment, Periods, Spiritual, Tool

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Essence, Listen, Meditation, Period, Permeate, Prayer

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.

Against, Children, Fighting, National, People

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength. "

Prayer, Quietness, Sit, Talking, Times, Want

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

Christian, Commitment, Long, Rejection, See

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Inspirational, Reading, Important, Discredit, Meditate

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