Andy Stanley Quotes

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

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

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

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

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.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

Only do what only you can do.

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

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

Your character is who you really are.

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.

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

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

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

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

What is your one-sentence job description?

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

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

If you don't clarify your goal, you'll never identify the best approach.

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

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

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

Why? Why did God provide me with more than I need?

When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of the team, it is never new information.

"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".

If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.