Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
ANDY STANLEYWhen people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
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Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
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My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.
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You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.
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God’s extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
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Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
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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.
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Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: ‘There is no God’ or ‘There is no money’?
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Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
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What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.
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What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
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Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
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Every story of change there is always someone who didn’t have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
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Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s commands regarding sexual purity.
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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 Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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You can’t lead without taking risk.
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My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.
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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.
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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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One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.
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If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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There’s a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
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