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Andy Stanley

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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Generosity Giving Writing
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.
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Area Goodness Impossible Potential Yourself
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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Morning Simple Sunday
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
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Act Change Courage Extraordinary
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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Accomplishment May Raises
The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn’t love a lot.
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Fools God Leadership Love Spiritual
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
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Believe Criticism Imagination Oneself Treat
Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
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God Provide Relationship See
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.
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Forgiveness Gift Hurt Myself Shadow Soul
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
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Honor Order Planning
Complexity is the enemy of clarity
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Clarity Complexity Enemy
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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Determined Leader Need
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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Expression Hope Jesus Vehicle World
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Difference Existence Point

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