Don’t be fair, be engaged.
ANDY STANLEY80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
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Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
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Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we’ve got to do things that no one else is doing.
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The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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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.
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Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
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Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.
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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.
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If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
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You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
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Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
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Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.
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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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Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
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Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
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Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
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The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
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Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
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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.
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God’s extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
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We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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