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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

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
ANDY STANLEY

Blame Future Issues Ourselves
My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Food Kids Leadership
I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.
ANDY STANLEY

Arrange Fall In Love God Myself People
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian God Religious
Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
ANDY STANLEY

Determined Leader Need
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
ANDY STANLEY

Education God Ignorance Virtue Wisdom
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
ANDY STANLEY

Honor Order Planning
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
ANDY STANLEY

Behavior Creation People Problem System Yourself
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
ANDY STANLEY

God Ideas Influence People Yourself
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Farmer Fear God Himself Irrational Lose
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.
ANDY STANLEY

God Long Past Sorry Tell
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Group Preparation
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
ANDY STANLEY

Application Christian Holy
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Brother Expectation God Ideas Need Open
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
ANDY STANLEY

Day Decision Determination Health Marriage Yourself
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Forgiveness Gift Hurt Myself Shadow Soul

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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