Top 350 Andy Stanley Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If you capture someone’s heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.”

— Andy Stanley

102. “Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

104. “Leaders fix things that are broken.”

— Andy Stanley

105. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

109. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

112. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

114. “Leaders make things better and that requires change.”

— Andy Stanley

115. “Your pain isn’t a trophy to show off. It’s not a story to tell. It’s potentially poison to your soul. To refuse to forgive is to choose to self-destruct.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

120. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

126. “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

127. “Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

131. “Complexity is the enemy of clarity.”

— Andy Stanley

132. “If you’re the only hot dog stand in town, you’re hot dogs don’t have to be good.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

134. “Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like – people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore – to control your life? How long?”

— Andy Stanley

135. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

141. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

145. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

147. “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

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

— Andy Stanley

149. “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

150. “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