Andy Stanley Quotes

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Christian Son
What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Church Leadership
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Leader Leadership
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
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Block Love People
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
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Morning Simple Sunday
Our 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.
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Believe Drama Minute Wall
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
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
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Different Direction One People
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
Don’t be fair, be engaged.
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Active Engaged Fair
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
Every story of change there is always someone who didn’t have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
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Christian Church Leadership
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
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Criticism Insecure Leader Think
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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Emotional Giving Result
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
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Christian Faith Simple
Complexity is the enemy of clarity
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Clarity Complexity Enemy
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
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Feel Inspiration Motivation People
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
Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
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Determined Leader Need
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
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Christian Church Leadership Need
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Generosity Giving Writing
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Christian Leadership Volunteer
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
ANDY STANLEY

Development Leader Strategy
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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Accomplishment May Raises

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