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Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.

Andy Stanley

When I count other people’s blessings I lose sight of mine.
ANDY STANLEY

Blessing Lose Myself People
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don’t run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
ANDY STANLEY

Adversity Follow Leadership Preparation Run Step
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
ANDY STANLEY

Honor Order Planning
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
ANDY STANLEY

Forgiveness Gift Hurt Myself Shadow Soul
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
ANDY STANLEY

Fruit Peace Spirit Wealth
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
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
ANDY STANLEY

Determine Fear Future Give
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
ANDY STANLEY

Different Direction One People
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
ANDY STANLEY

God Myself Religious Surrender Trust Yourself
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
ANDY STANLEY

Alone Application Holy Knowledge
When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
ANDY STANLEY

Challenge Generosity Offend People Yourself
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
ANDY STANLEY

Concentration Elimination Secret
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
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Act Change Courage Extraordinary
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Leader Leadership
You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.
ANDY STANLEY

Association Influence People Refusal Yourself
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
ANDY STANLEY

Emotional Giving Result
Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
ANDY STANLEY

Learning Place Talk Yourself
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 STANLEY

Break Change Day Direction Generosity Habit Prayer Yourself
You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.
ANDY STANLEY

Area Goodness Impossible Potential Yourself
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
ANDY STANLEY

Ink Planning Vision Writing
If you see your brother in need, it doesn’t matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother’s unexpected need.
ANDY STANLEY

Brother Expectation God Ideas Need Open
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
ANDY STANLEY

Difference Different Dreams Vision
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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Gratitude Guilty Heart Positive
Every story of change there is always someone who didn’t have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Church Leadership
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
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God Hands Need Thinking Trust Yourself
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Challenge Journey Leadership People Place
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
ANDY STANLEY

Love Start Stay Submission

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