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Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.


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CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the...
CHARLES STANLEY The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
CHARLES STANLEY 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