Man of God Quotes

“We fulfill our eternal purpose when our lives honor the Lord and reflect His glory. What pleases a human father more than to hear, “That boy looks just like you; he even acts like you”? God takes pleasure in spiritual sons who reflect His character.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“What is a “total” or “real” man? He is one who understands and accepts the responsibility for the development of his mental, emotional, and spiritual capacity and demonstrates this by his maturing attitude and actions in his personal life, his home life, his vocational life, his social life, and his spiritual life.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“Sometimes an emotionally battered youth will set out to prove his worth by trying to achieve great goals. Success for this love-starved man is measured by his accumulation of visible wealth and honors. He shows affection by bestowing costly gifts on others—and is bewildered when the recipients show only momentary appreciation. He doesn’t realize that his family wants his love above everything else; however, someone must teach him how to love.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“Part of our confusion over the meaning of love arises from our use of one word for many kinds of love. We can love a passage of Scripture, song, family member, sport, pet, chocolate candy, or success—and use the same word for all of them. If there were different words for all the kinds of love that we speak of, however, the dictionary would be considerably more complicated. According to the Bible, love is a deep, meaningful action that God intends as a unifying factor in our lives. By love we are drawn together and united as one in spirit (Col. 3:14). Have you explained true, unconditional love to your children? They talk about it, but do they know your version—which I hope is God’s version? Do you know how to tell them? Have you modeled it for them? When you say, “Honey, I love you,” do you mean “I like the way you look today” or possibly “You did a great job with that task”? Yes, love has different meanings.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“Simply because children live in a home where parents are saved, where the essentials of life are provided, where members give money to the church, pray at meals, and read the Bible once in a while, does not mean they are receiving Christian training.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“If you earnestly desire to provide for your family, then you must make an effort to understand spiritual matters enough to teach them to your children.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“One of the serious problems in families is that fathers do not know their faith well enough to teach it to their children.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“Spiritual weakness makes our homes more vulnerable than any other liability, which is why the head of the home needs the full spiritual armor offered by God (Eph. 6:11–18).”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“Unless you and I strive to obey the Lord in our homes, we will create a spiritually poisonous atmosphere that will infect our children with disrespect for authority—both ours and God’s. Pay close attention to this principle: we reap what we sow. Our disobedience today may become our children’s rebellion tomorrow.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You

“A man may have a perfect body, but if his emotions, mind, and will are not under the control of the Holy Spirit he will fail regularly and tragically as the husband, father, and follower God intends him to be.”
― Charles F. Stanley, Man of God: Leading Your Family by Allowing God to Lead You