Top 350 Andy Stanley Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.”

— Andy Stanley

102. “Your character is who you really are.”

— Andy Stanley

103. “Leaders fix things that are broken.”

— Andy Stanley

104. “The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

106. “I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.”

— Andy Stanley

107. “The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve- that’s mercy. In addition, God decided to give us exactly what we didn’t deserve- we call that grace.”

— Andy Stanley

108. “It doesn’t really matter what time it is if you haven’t determined what to do with your time.”

— Andy Stanley

109. “Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.”

— Andy Stanley

110. “When the house is on fire, don’t tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.”

— Andy Stanley

111. “What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.”

— Andy Stanley

112. “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.”

— Andy Stanley

113. “Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.”

— Andy Stanley

114. “Victims don’t want to be proactive about changing – they want to be proactive about making sure that the person who hurt them pays. And so we spend our energy telling our sad stories rather than taking responsibility for our behavior. Thus we open the door of our hearts and welcome in the Trojan horse of bitterness. And it stands there, a monument, a constant reminder of a debt someone has yet to pay. Somebody owes us.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

116. “Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s commands regarding sexual purity.”

— Andy Stanley

117. “The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.”

— Andy Stanley

118. “As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else’s cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.”

— Andy Stanley

119. “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.”

— Andy Stanley

120. “Acknowledging weakness doesn’t make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.”

— Andy Stanley

121. “In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”

— Andy Stanley

122. “The sermon begins in the parking lot.”

— Andy Stanley

123. “Serving people we don’t see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn’t see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn’t want to sell its products to a gay couple, it’s their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

125. “Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.”

— Andy Stanley

126. “Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.”

— Andy Stanley

127. “Complexity is the enemy of clarity.”

— Andy Stanley

128. “Saying a prayer won’t make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.”

— Andy Stanley

129. “My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.”

— Andy Stanley

130. “Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.”

— Andy Stanley

131. “A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else’s. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.”

— Andy Stanley

132. “Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.”

— Andy Stanley

133. “Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.”

— Andy Stanley

134. “Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.”

— Andy Stanley

135. “Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous.”

— Andy Stanley

136. “People who were nothing like him liked him. And Jesus liked people who were nothing like him.”

— Andy Stanley

137. “But leadership is not always about getting things done “right.” Leadership is about getting things done through other people. Leaders miss opportunities to play to their strengths because they haven’t figured out that great leaders work through other leaders, who work through others. Leadership is about multiplying your efforts, which automatically multiplies your results.”

— Andy Stanley

138. “Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.”

— Andy Stanley

139. “You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.”

— Andy Stanley

140. “A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.”

— Andy Stanley

141. “If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.”

— Andy Stanley

142. “If you don’t conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.”

— Andy Stanley

143. “Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.”

— Andy Stanley

144. “Asking doesn’t mean you lack wisdom – it’s evidence of wisdom.”

— Andy Stanley

145. “If we’re going to reach the unchurched, underchurched, dechurched, and postchurched with the gospel in a culture that’s trending post-Christian, we must rethink our approach.”

— Andy Stanley

146. “When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn’t change. Visions are simply refined with time.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

148. “Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.”

— Andy Stanley

149. “When you start thinking you’re a big shot, you wash more feet.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley