Top 350 Andy Stanley Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.”

— Andy Stanley

202. “I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.”

— Andy Stanley

203. “There is no necessary correlation between how busy you are and how productive you are. Being busy isn’t the same as being productive.”

— Andy Stanley

204. “People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.”

— Andy Stanley

205. “Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.”

— Andy Stanley

206. “One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.”

— Andy Stanley

207. “Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something.”

— Andy Stanley

208. “Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.”

— Andy Stanley

209. “When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it’s financially challenging to do so. It’s like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, “Money is the key to life and happiness and safety.””

— Andy Stanley

210. “We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.”

— Andy Stanley

211. “God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.”

— Andy Stanley

212. “Who are you and what breaks your heart?”

— Andy Stanley

213. “It’s OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let’s don’t offend them with something else.”

— Andy Stanley

214. “Leaders are made one response at a time.”

— Andy Stanley

215. “Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.”

— Andy Stanley

216. “Pay the price. Embrace the vision. After all, everybody ends up somewhere in life. You have the opportunity to end up somewhere on purpose.”

— Andy Stanley

217. “Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.”

— Andy Stanley

218. “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.”

— Andy Stanley

219. “Preaching is not talking to people about the Bible; it is talking to people about themselves from the Bible.”

— Andy Stanley

220. “Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

222. “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.”

— Andy Stanley

223. “The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

225. “It’s ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they’ve done.”

— Andy Stanley

226. “Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can’t cram for what’s most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you’ve got to be available consistently, not randomly.”

— Andy Stanley

227. “Here’s a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?”

— Andy Stanley

228. “It is next to impossible to hear the voice of wisdom if we are not really listening for it to begin with. The best counsel in the world is wasted counsel if our minds are already made up.”

— Andy Stanley

229. “There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.”

— Andy Stanley

230. “The problem was that somewhere along the way I had bought into the myth that a good leader has to be good at everything. So I operated under the assumption that I had to upgrade my weaknesses into strengths. After all, who would follow a leader who wasn’t well-rounded?”

— Andy Stanley

231. “Nobody at home should feel like they are competing with somebody at work.”

— Andy Stanley

232. “Authority does not equal competency.”

— Andy Stanley

233. “Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

235. “We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.””

— Andy Stanley

236. “Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.”

— Andy Stanley

237. “If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.”

— Andy Stanley

238. “Jesus didn’t command his followers to feel something. He commanded them to do some things.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

240. “People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.”

— Andy Stanley

241. “What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.”

— Andy Stanley

242. “It’s unfortunate that someone can grow up hearing sermons and Sunday school lessons, yet never be captivated by the Scriptures.”

— Andy Stanley

243. “What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?”

— Andy Stanley

244. “The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

246. “Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.”

— Andy Stanley

247. “There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.”

— Andy Stanley

248. “Your beliefs shape your attitudes!”

— Andy Stanley

249. “If you want to know if I’m a Godly man, follow me home.”

— Andy Stanley

250. “Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.”

— Andy Stanley