Here’s something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” how would you answer?
ANDY STANLEYOur culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
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80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
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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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We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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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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People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
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My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
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Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
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Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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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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Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.
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Don’t be fair, be engaged.
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Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
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