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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.

Andy Stanley

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
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Fruit Peace Spirit Wealth
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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Act Behavior Expectation
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.
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Change Environment Growth Life Progress
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
ANDY STANLEY

God Support Yourself
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.
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Direction Discussion Individual Problem Solution Talk
If you want to know if I’m a Godly man, follow me home.
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Follow God Home Man Myself
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Christian Leadership Volunteer
If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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Devotion Yourself
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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Emotional Giving Result
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
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Choice Difference Fools Right Wrong
People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
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.
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Himself Man Obedience Refuse Repeat Sincere Woman
Leadership is not always about getting things done ‘right.’ Leadership is about getting things done through other people.
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Done Get People Thing
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Love Start Stay Submission
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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Deep Live Mess People Planning

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.

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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.

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