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There’s a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.

Andy Stanley

People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
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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Change Environment Growth Life Progress
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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God Ideas Influence People Yourself
Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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Blame Future Issues Ourselves
We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
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Discipline Prioritize Stanley
The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
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Conscious Criticism God Work Yourself
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
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Behavior Creation People Problem System Yourself
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Better Give Up Investment Sacrifice
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
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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Generosity Giving Writing
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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Deep Live Mess People Planning
Leadership is not always about getting things done ‘right.’ Leadership is about getting things done through other people.
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Done Get People Thing
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.
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Area Goodness Impossible Potential Yourself
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
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Criticism Insecure Leader Think
Don’t be fair, be engaged.
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Active Engaged Fair
What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
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Break Change Design Divine Heart Yourself
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.
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Challenge Generosity Offend People Yourself
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.
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God Human Stage Weakness
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
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Courage Goodness Ideas Regret Simplicity
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
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Authentic Demonstration Devotion God Love Yourself
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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Accomplishment Greatness Rise 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.
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Challenge Journey Leadership People Place
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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Broken Dream People
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
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God Myself Religious Surrender Trust Yourself
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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Christian God Religious
I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.
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Arrange Fall In Love God Myself People

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