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The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

Andy Stanley

It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Differences Make
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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Ability Freedom Story Yourself
When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.
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Dreams End Excess Memories
Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
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Ability Deserve God Grace Vehicle
At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.
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Day End God Limitation Love World Yourself
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
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
God’s extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
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Christian Extravantly God Religious
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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Act Behavior Expectation
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
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
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Christian Church Leadership Need
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
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Courage Goodness Ideas Regret Simplicity
Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
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Everyone Leader Shut Wonder
Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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Learning Place Talk Yourself
Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
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Farmer Fear God Himself Irrational Lose
People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn’t love a lot.
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Fools God Leadership Love Spiritual
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
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Difference Different Dreams Vision
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
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Development Leader Strategy
Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
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Men Soul Tension Vision
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
Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
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Action Loud Talk Word
Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.
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Forgiveness Goodness Heaven People
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
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
Direction, not intention determines your destination.
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Destination Determination Direction Yourself
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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Book Cheat People

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