Andy Stanley Quotes

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.

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

The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.

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

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.

Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

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

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.

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

Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.

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

Leaders fix things that are broken.

"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

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

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?

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Courage is essential to leadership.

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

Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

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

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

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

God uses broken-hearted leaders.

It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

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

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

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

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

Leaders love progress.

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

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.

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.

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.

If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?

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.

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

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God

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.