Andy Stanley Quotes:

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

Topics: Christian, The End Of The Day, World

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

Topics: Doe, Appetite, Grows

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

source: - Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012

Topics: Choices, Intention, Destination, Stanley, Setting Goals

In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.

Topics: Mind, Rich, Cases

The Church is a family expecting guests.

Topics: Church, Guests, Expecting

No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.

Topics: Might, Matter, Rich

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Topics: Ideas, Numbers, People, No Idea, God Works In Mysterious Ways

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

Topics: Night, Issues, Care, Global Poverty

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

Topics: Decision, Doe, Authority, Competencies

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

Topics: Compassion, People, Generosity, Mind Boggling

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

Topics: Giving, Kingdoms, Fields

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

Topics: People, Safety, Rich, Safety And Security

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice.  It is an investment.

source: - Twitter post from May 17, 2011

Topics: Giving Up, Sacrifice, Investment

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

Topics: People, Matter, Riches

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Topics: Heart, Acting, Praying, Generous Heart

When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."

Topics: Keys, Safety, Giving, Value Systems

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Topics: Jesus, Church, World, Local Church

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

Topics: Christian, Children, Home, Christian Home

Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

source: - Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.51, Multnomah

Topics: Faithful, Process

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Topics: Generosity, Effort, May

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Topics: Stewardship, Temporary

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

Topics: Vocabulary, Snacks, Meals, Pantry

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

Topics: Kids, Church, Preacher

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

Topics: Worry, Able, Preacher

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

Topics: Wish

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

Topics: Leader, Challenges, Needs

What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, "tenth." For some people, that's extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.

Topics: Mean, People, Giving, Tithe, Colonoscopy

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

Topics: Wise, Decision, Vision, Wise Decision, Personal Vision

As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

Topics: Generosity, Priorities, Important, Wherever You Are

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

Topics: Self, Grace, Threatening, Self Righteous

Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Not for guilt's sake, but for the sake of being good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

Topics: Thinking, Generosity, Effort, Needs Of Others

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

Topics: Men, Soul, Vision

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

Topics: Real, Opportunity, Differences

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Topics: Fear, Opportunity, Giving

Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.

Topics: Writing, Generosity, Giving

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

Topics: Tipping, Acts Of Courage, Tipping Point

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

Topics: Real, Christian Inspirational, Feelings

The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.

Topics: Monday, Children, Sunday, Unique Opportunities

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

Topics: Forgiveness, Hurt, Decision, Undeserving

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

Topics: Life Changing, Inspiration, Communication

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

Topics: Gratitude, Heart, Guilt, Positive Behavior

A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

Topics: Coaching, Limits, Helping, Good Coaches

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Topics: Years, People, Lines

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Topics: Christian, Holy, Application, Haughty

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

Topics: Men, Resurrection

You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.

Topics: Coaching, May, Input

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

Topics: Numbers, People, Groups, Large Groups

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.

Topics: Dream, Differences, Being Different

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Topics: Smart, Stupid, Integrity

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

Topics: Action, Speak, Used

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

source: - FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Apr 09, 2017

Topics: Secret, Elimination, Concentration

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

Topics: Regret, Ideas, Collections

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

Topics: Life Is, Given, Values

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah

Topics: Character, Tests, Cramming, Quiz, Test Of Character

Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.

Topics: Passion, Vision, Should

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

Topics: Conscious, Critical

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Topics: People, Leader, Helpful

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

Topics: People, Grace, Goodness, Goodness Of God, Reserved

If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

Topics: Enemy, Clarity, Complexity

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Topics: Mean, Littles, Deals

Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

source: - Twitter post from Oct 20, 2014

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Topics: Leader, Challenges, Needs, Need A Change

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Topics: Giving, Comfort, Obedience, Irresponsibility

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Your Brother

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

Topics: Fruits Of The Spirit, Fruit, Spirit

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

Topics: Leader, Inspire, Coaching, Good Coaches

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Stanley, Reliance On God

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

Topics: Church, Outsiders, Expecting, Insiders

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Topics: Taken, Roots, Perception

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

Topics: God, Thinking, Hands, Stanley

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to.

Topics: People, Mess, Plans

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

Topics: Responsibility, Giving, Purpose

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Topics: People, Vision, Assuming

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

Topics: God, World, Imagine, Unbelievers

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

Topics: Running, Heart, Adversity

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

Topics: Dream, Memories, Ends, End Is Near, Exceed

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

Topics: Writing, Vision, Ink

Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

Topics: Path, Problem, Solutions, Right Path

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Topics: Accomplishment, May, Raises, Greatest Accomplishment

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Stanley

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

Topics: Shows

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Topics: Responsibility, Leader, Cups

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

Topics: Attitude, Shapes, Belief

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

Topics: What Matters, Matter, Draws

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

Topics: Spiritual, Maturity, Perfect, Spiritual Maturity

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

Topics: Jesus, People

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

Topics: Morning, Sunday, Simple, Disservice

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

Topics: Art, Goal, Decision

To understand why, submit and apply.

Topics: Submit

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

Topics: Journey, People, Challenges

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

Topics: Journey, Issues, Giving, Communicators

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

Topics: Cheating, Book, People

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

Topics: Differences, Making A Difference

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

Topics: Devotion To God, Devotion

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

Topics: Differences, Fool, Persons

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Topics: Talking

If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.

Topics: Christian, Jesus, Attitude

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.134, Thomas Nelson

Topics: Mean, Asking, Evidence

There's a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.

Topics: Believe, Differences, Believe In God

Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.

source: - Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.9, Zondervan

Topics: Blessed, Passion, Blessing, Surrounded By Friends

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

source: - "Interview with Andy Stanley on How to Be Rich". Interview with Brad Lomenick, www.bradlomenick.com. January 8, 2014.

Topics: Riches

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.167, Multnomah

Topics: Giving, Lord, Give Me

Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right.

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

source: - Twitter post from Apr 12, 2014

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Maintaining Peace, Peace With God

Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?

Topics: Men, Angry Man, Long

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

source: - Andy Stanley, Stuart Hall (2004). “Max Q Student Journal”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Quality, Determine

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

Topics: Law, Principles, Accomplish, Breaking The Law

The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve- that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us exactly what we didn't deserve- we call that grace.

source: - Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.49, Multnomah

Topics: Spiritual, Giving, Grace

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

Topics: Grace, Use, Vehicle

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

source: - Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.116, Zondervan

Topics: Want Something, People, Challenges

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

source: - Andy Stanley (2013). “How to Be Rich: It's Not What You Have. It's What You Do With What You Have.”, p.106, Zondervan

Topics: Anxiety, There Is No God, No Money

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Topics: Grace, Grace Of God, Gods Will

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Topics: Heart, Design, Break

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Topics: Wisdom, Want, What You Want

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

Topics: Matter, Determined, Ifs

One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

source: - Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.41, Multnomah

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Exciting Things

People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.

source: - Twitter post from Jun 07, 2014

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Avoidance

If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

Topics: People, Want, Reaching

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

source: - Twitter post from May 05, 2014

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

source: - Andy Stanley (2014). “Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions”, p.38, Multnomah

Topics: Impact, Decision, Moments

Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

Topics: Jesus, Doe, Following, Prerequisites

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

source: - Andy Stanley (2014). “Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions”, p.38, Multnomah

Topics: Decisions You Make, Today, Determined

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

source: - Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.22, Multnomah

Topics: Should, Ready

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.49, Multnomah

Topics: Growth, Progress, Void

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.

Topics: Spiritual, Simple, People

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

Topics: Submission, Divine, Unconditional

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

Topics: Christian, Jesus, Attention

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

Topics: People, Problem, Behavior

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

Topics: Motivation, Effort, Rich

Progress requires change.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.48, Multnomah

Topics: Leadership, Christian, Progress

If you don't clarify your goal, you'll never identify the best approach.

Topics: Goal, Approach, Ifs

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

Topics: Dream, People, Broken, Propensity

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.

Topics: Leadership, Christian, Home, Godly Man

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.65, Multnomah

Topics: Dust, Use, Excuse

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

source: - Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.138, Zondervan

Topics: Wise, Ignorance, Use

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

source: - Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.40, Multnomah

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

What God originates, God orchestrates.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.24, Multnomah

Topics: Hurt, Painful, Grammar, Painful Truth, Bad Grammar

Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Followers, Knows

There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

source: - Andy Stanley (2009). “Louder Than Words: The Power of Uncompromised Living”, p.136, Multnomah

Topics: Men, Insincere

When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.

Topics: Thinking, Feet, Bigs, Big Shots

I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

Topics: Needs, Want, Problem, Wrong Direction

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

source: - Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.53, Multnomah

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Grace And Mercy

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

Topics: Block, Love Is, People

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

Topics: Leadership, Christian, Church

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

Topics: Teacher, Jesus, Believe, Science Teacher, High School Teachers

If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.

Topics: Thinking, Able, Scripts, Developing Relationships, Non Believer

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

source: - Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.69, Zondervan

Topics: Weakness, Stage, Showcase

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

source: - Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.62, Multnomah

Topics: God, Christian, Old And New

God doesn’t want to take your money. He just doesn’t want your money to take you.

Topics: Want

It isn't about who is 'for' or 'against' you, it's about who you are for.

Topics: Who You Are

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

source: - Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.55, Multnomah

Topics: God, Christian, Religious, Saying A Prayer

As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Topics: Jesus, Jobs, Integrity, Sold Out

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.25, Multnomah

Topics: People, Done, Getting Things Done

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

Topics: People, Influence, Refuse

Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

Topics: Home, Organization, Discipline, Not Enough Time, Stumble Upon

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

source: - Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.8, Multnomah

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.

Topics: Jesus, Sides

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

Topics: Christian, Believe, Son, Not Fair

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.23, Multnomah

Topics: Team, Leader, Weakness, New Information

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Topics: Dream, Ideas, People, Clear Vision

Priority determines capacity.

Topics: Priorities, Capacity, Determine

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Topics: Leadership, Christian, Heart

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

Topics: Mean, Feet, Gains

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

source: - "Interview: Andy Stanley on the Principle of the Path". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 18, 2009.

Topics: One Direction, People, Different

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.

Topics: Sorry, Past, Long

Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt.

Topics: Decision, Debt

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.31, Multnomah

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

source: - Twitter post from Oct 05, 2014

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.53, Multnomah

Topics: Things In Life, Missing, Conquer, Conquer Your Fears

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

Topics: Jesus, Realizing, Standards

Only do what only you can do.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.15, Multnomah

Topics: Leadership, Can Do

Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.

source: - Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.76, Multnomah

Topics: Faith, Christian, Dream

Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.

Topics: Jesus, Couple, Eye, Bakeries, Gay Couples

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

Topics: Leader, Watches, May

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

Topics: Coaching, Faster, My Own

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

source: - Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.63, Zondervan

Topics: Heart, Hands, Feet

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

Topics: Helping, Problem, Sometimes

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.22, Multnomah

Topics: Reality, People, Firm

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

Topics: Faith, Christian, Simple, Survived

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.54, Multnomah

Topics: Moving, Leader, Gone

Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

Topics: Love, Christian, Jesus

No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.

source: - Source: paulsohn.org

Topics: People, Challenges, Matter

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

Topics: Stories, Rest Of Your Life

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

source: - Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.20, Multnomah

Topics: Leader, Strive, Wells, Well Rounded

Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.

Topics: Jesus, Ministry, Way

I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

Topics: Falling In Love, Jesus, People

I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

source: - Andy Stanley, Bill Willits (2009). “Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture”, p.32, Multnomah

Topics: Believe, Preparation, Groups, Small Groups

Your character is who you really are.

Topics: Character

Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.

source: - Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.72, Multnomah

Topics: Faith, Christian, Father, Life Decision

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

source: - Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.40, Zondervan

Topics: Jesus, Grace, Balance

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

Topics: Leadership, Christian, Church

The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.

Topics: Successful

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

Topics: Leadership, Christian, Mind

For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

Topics: Heart, Sacrifice, Men, Matter Of Time