Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
ANDY STANLEYMaintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
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It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
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If you want to know if I’m a Godly man, follow me home.
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Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
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What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
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Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
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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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Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.
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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.
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Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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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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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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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.
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The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.
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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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A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
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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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You can’t lead without taking risk.
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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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Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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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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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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One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
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You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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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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