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.
ANDY STANLEYWe’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
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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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Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
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Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
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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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Direction, not intention determines your destination.
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Leadership is not always about getting things done ‘right.’ Leadership is about getting things done through other people.
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Progress requires change.
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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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There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.
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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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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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The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed – they died for what they claim to have seen.
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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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Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.
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Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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