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Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.

Andy Stanley

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
ANDY STANLEY

Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Church Leadership Need
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
ANDY STANLEY

Alone Application Holy Knowledge
Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
ANDY STANLEY

God Provide Relationship See
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
ANDY STANLEY

Death Man Myself Prediction
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Inspirational Motivational People Reach
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
ANDY STANLEY

Goal Navigate Uncertainty
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Break Up Dreams Family Sexuality
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Broken Dream People
You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
ANDY STANLEY

God Grace Resistance Time Yourself
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
ANDY STANLEY

Book Cheat People
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
ANDY STANLEY

Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Group Preparation
The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed – they died for what they claim to have seen.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Death Follow God See
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
ANDY STANLEY

Behavior People Problem
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
ANDY STANLEY

Authentic Demonstration Devotion God Love Yourself
The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.
ANDY STANLEY

Gone Leader Moving
What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
ANDY STANLEY

Break Change Design Divine Heart Yourself
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
ANDY STANLEY

Giving Investment Sacrifice
Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
ANDY STANLEY

Action Loud Talk Word
We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
ANDY STANLEY

Deep Effort Gratitude Realization Recognition Rich
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
ANDY STANLEY

Choice Difference Fools Right Wrong
Lord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.
ANDY STANLEY

Courage Hard Myself Right Wisdom
Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!
ANDY STANLEY

Accountable Leadership Temporary Yourself
Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
ANDY STANLEY

Celebration God Leverage Yourself

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