Charles L. Allen Quotes

• When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Hope, Doors, Faces

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.51, Revell

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• Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

  Charles L. Allen

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

  Charles L. Allen

  Wish

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• Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

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  Three, Kind, Persons

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.36, Baker Books

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• The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

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  Love, Winning, Self

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

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  Looks, Way, Sometimes

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• It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we are sick, or going to the dentist. Somebody needs to tell us that the sunrise is also God's will. There is the time of harvest, the harvest which will provide food and clothes for us, without which life could not be sustained on earth. God ordered the seasons-they are his will. In fact, the good things in life far outweigh the bad. There are more sunrises than cyclones.

  Charles L. Allen

  God, Things In Life, Medicine

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• We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

  Charles L. Allen

  Running, Facts, Six

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.28, Baker Books

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• The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

  Charles L. Allen

  Faith, Christian, Gone

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• But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

  Charles L. Allen

  Giving, Way, Service To Others

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.36, Baker Books

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• Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?

  Charles L. Allen

  Letting Go, Laughing, One Day

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• In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

  Charles L. Allen

  Mean, Grace, Overcoming

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• Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

  Charles L. Allen

  Boomerang, Greater

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• One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.

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  Husband, Dark, Love Is

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• The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Prayer, Purpose, Firsts

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.16, Revell

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• As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

  Charles L. Allen

  Men, Coffins, Rooms

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.36, Baker Books

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• Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

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  Purpose, Miserable, Persons

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• When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

  Charles L. Allen

  Sacrifice, Want, Results

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• What a person thinks about determines what he is.

  Charles L. Allen

  Thinking, Determine, Persons

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.25, Baker Books

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• Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

  Charles L. Allen

  Men, Earth, Given

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.35, Baker Books

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• I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

  Charles L. Allen

  Prayer, Believe, Hopeless

  Charles L. Allen (1958). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer”

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• Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

  Charles L. Allen

  People, Measure Of Success

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.36, Baker Books

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• I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.

  Charles L. Allen

  Soul, Needs, Forget

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.23, Baker Books

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• The work praises the man.

  Charles L. Allen

  Motivational, Men, Praise

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• Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

  Charles L. Allen

  Heart, Giving, Joy

  Charles L. Allen, Robert V. Ozment (1953). “God's Psychiatry, ...But God Can”

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