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In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY
I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS
There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES
I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY