Andy Stanley Quotes - Page 7

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

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.

No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.

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.

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.

I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

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.

Your character is who you really are.

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.

The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.

God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.

Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.