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.
ANDY STANLEYGenerosity 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.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
-
-
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.
ANDY STANLEY -
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.
ANDY STANLEY -
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
ANDY STANLEY -
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
ANDY STANLEY -
Complexity is the enemy of clarity
ANDY STANLEY -
Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
ANDY STANLEY -
Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.
ANDY STANLEY -
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 -
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
ANDY STANLEY -
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
ANDY STANLEY -
Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: ‘There is no God’ or ‘There is no money’?
ANDY STANLEY -
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 -
At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.
ANDY STANLEY -
Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
ANDY STANLEY -
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
ANDY STANLEY