Andy Stanley Quotes - Page 9

Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Be who you are. But be the very best communicator you can possibly be. To do that you must be willing to sacrifice what's comfortable-what has become part of your style-for the sake of what is effective.

As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.

God uses broken-hearted leaders.

What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

You have not been called to change the world, but you have been called to change something.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

As a pastor I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

What is your one-sentence job description?

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?