Top 350 Andy Stanley Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “T-shirts create a sense of “We”. Food says, “We don’t mind spending money on you.””

— Andy Stanley

252. “As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.”

— Andy Stanley

253. “Prayer keeps the burden fresh. It keeps our eyes and hearts in an expectant mode.”

— Andy Stanley

254. “We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.”

— Andy Stanley

255. “Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it.”

— Andy Stanley

256. “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.”

— Andy Stanley

257. “Geographically speaking, you can’t get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can’t get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.”

— Andy Stanley

258. “Preachers prepare with this fear: ‘Am I going to be able to fill the time?’ The audience never worries about that.”

— Andy Stanley

259. “There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.”

— Andy Stanley

260. “If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.”

— Andy Stanley

261. “God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.”

— Andy Stanley

262. “You can’t give yourself fully to someone else as long as you are mastered by something else.”

— Andy Stanley

263. “The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.”

— Andy Stanley

264. “It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

266. “To get from where we don’t want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction.”

— Andy Stanley

267. “Think about this for a moment. What would happen if you were to begin speaking to people’s potential rather than their performance? What if you made it a habit to dispense the same type of grace to others as has been poured out on you? What would happen if you intentionally laced your conversations with notions of what could be true of the people around you?”

— Andy Stanley

268. “Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.”

— Andy Stanley

269. “Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.”

— Andy Stanley

270. “If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.”

— Andy Stanley

271. “Environments are the messages before the message.”

— Andy Stanley

272. “Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?”

— Andy Stanley

273. “You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.”

— Andy Stanley

274. “Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.”

— Andy Stanley

275. “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.”

— Andy Stanley

276. “Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.”

— Andy Stanley

277. “Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.”

— Andy Stanley

278. “People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church – even if they don’t share your beliefs – as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.”

— Andy Stanley

279. “Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.”

— Andy Stanley

280. “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.”

— Andy Stanley

281. “In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.”

— Andy Stanley

282. “If you’re not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it’s time to look for a church.”

— Andy Stanley

283. “If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.”

— Andy Stanley

284. “Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.”

— Andy Stanley

285. “As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.”

— Andy Stanley

286. “Giving is the way God chooses to change our hearts. As your heart changes, your attitude and feelings will follow suit. God loves a cheerful giver, but he’ll put your money to good use whether you’re cheerful or not. My advice: Give until you get cheerful. As I’ve said, our giving must impact our.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

288. “Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.”

— Andy Stanley

289. “Preachers’ kids who gravitate toward ministry are commodities. I hire all I can. We see church differently than everybody else.”

— Andy Stanley

290. “The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.”

— Andy Stanley

291. “Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.”

— Andy Stanley

292. “Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.”

— Andy Stanley

293. “What kind of vision are you casting for the people around you? Dad, what kind of vision are you casting for your children? Mom, what kind of vision are you casting for your husband? Grandparent, what about those grandkids? Leader, what kind of personal visions are you casting for the people who have invested their time and talents in your vision?”

— Andy Stanley

294. “The reason we’re here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner’s heart over the state of children.”

— Andy Stanley

295. “What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

297. “The best way to know if someone is prepared to commit is to examine his or her prior commitments. If you want to know how someone will behave tomorrow, take a look at what he or she did yesterday.”

— Andy Stanley

298. “The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.”

— Andy Stanley

299. “If you’re a preacher’s kid, you see the church differently.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley