Andy Stanley Quotes

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

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

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.

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

Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

Authority does not equal competency.

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.

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

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

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

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

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

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

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Your character is who you really are.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

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

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

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

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

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.

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

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

Environments are the messages before the message.

Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

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.

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

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

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

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

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

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.

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

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

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.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

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

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

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