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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

If you want to know if I’m a Godly man, follow me home.
ANDY STANLEY

Follow God Home Man Myself
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
ANDY STANLEY

Better Give Up Investment Sacrifice
Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.
ANDY STANLEY

Determination Direction Friendship Life Quality 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
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
ANDY STANLEY

God Hands Need Thinking Trust Yourself
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
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Church Leadership Need
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
ANDY STANLEY

Himself Man Obedience Refuse Repeat Sincere Woman
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Faith Simple
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Change Environment Growth Life Progress
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
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
ANDY STANLEY

Day Decision Determination Health Marriage Yourself
My 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.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Death Fake Myself Science Teacher
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
ANDY STANLEY

Determine Fear Future Give
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
ANDY STANLEY

Giving Investment Sacrifice
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
ANDY STANLEY

Accomplishment Greatness Rise Yourself
The Church is a family expecting guests.
ANDY STANLEY

Expectation Family God Guest
Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
ANDY STANLEY

Ability Deserve God Grace Vehicle
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
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
ANDY STANLEY

Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
ANDY STANLEY

Alone Application Holy Knowledge
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian God Religious
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
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
ANDY STANLEY

Character Judgement Quiz Test
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Leader Leadership
If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
ANDY STANLEY

Difficult Old Originate Teaching
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
ANDY STANLEY

Development Leader Strategy

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.

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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.

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