Charles Stanley Quotes

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

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

The ability to get to a higher level in our life means that we have to generate the energy to be able to do so, and generally, we do that by a fall. Spiritual advances are almost always proceeded by a fall of one kind or another.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.