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It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.

Andy Stanley

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
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Christian Food Kids Leadership
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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God Long Past Sorry Tell
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
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Accomplishment Break God Ignorance Law Oneself Principle Wisdom
We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
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Discipline Prioritize Stanley
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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Accomplishment Greatness Rise Yourself
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Alone Application Holy Knowledge
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Block Love People
We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
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Decision Future Impact Moments Ourselves Thinking
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
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Communication Complex Information People
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
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Death Man Myself Prediction
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.
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Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom 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.
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Concentration Elimination Secret
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
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Courage Goodness Ideas Regret Simplicity
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
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God Support Yourself
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
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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Break Up Dreams Family Sexuality
There’s a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
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Believe Difference God
My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.
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Hope Myself Rich
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
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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Emotional Giving Result
Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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Learning Place Talk Yourself
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself 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 People Problem
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.
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Himself Man Obedience Refuse Repeat Sincere Woman
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
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Challenge Matter People
When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.
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Dreams End Excess Memories
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Honor Order Planning

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