People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
ANDY STANLEYMy 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.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
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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.
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We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
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Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.
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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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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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Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
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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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Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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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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Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
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If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
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