Baptist Pastor Charles Stanley Quotes

Worldly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Divine wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would never vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Stanley

Realize that apologizing face-to-face is often unwise. It tends to make the other person feel 'let down' and make you look holier than thou.

Charles Stanley

An uneducated person who knows how to meditate on the Lord has learned far more than a person with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Charles Stanley

The best way to deceive believers in the world is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it offers some new insight from God.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest accomplishment possible.

Charles Stanley

As we learn from the experience, the scars of sin can lead to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Charles Stanley

The hope placed on a man, a man-made philosophy or an institution is always wrong... because these things are unreliable and transitory.

Charles Stanley

A Christian has no right to engage in battle unless it is a spiritual battle.

Charles Stanley