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Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Charles Stanley

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Charles Stanley
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 25
Erudite
Missionary
Pastor
Preacher
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Charles Frazier Stanley
Dr. Charles Stanley
Religion
Substance
Behavior
Relationship
Belief

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Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.
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In thinking about His many blessings, you view God's work from a new perspective.
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He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
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God blesses us so that we might bless others!
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The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.
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God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.
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The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
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You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
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God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
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In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.
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Jesus is our Advocate before God.
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No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.
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Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.
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(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.
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To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.
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God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
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If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.
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Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
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