Top 350 Andy Stanley Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “You won’t take risk without courage.”

— Andy Stanley

302. “Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both... It’s easy to create an all-truth church model. It may be even easier to create an all-grace model, but Jesus didn’t leave either option on the table.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

304. “As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn’t mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash.”

— Andy Stanley

305. “There’s a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.”

— Andy Stanley

306. “Something I’ve noticed. Church planters don’t pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.”

— Andy Stanley

307. “Generosity won’t happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

309. “Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.”

— Andy Stanley

310. “Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.”

— Andy Stanley

311. “As you give to fund God’s needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That’s what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it’s not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.”

— Andy Stanley

312. “We only get one shot at every season of life. Whether or not we learned anything becomes evident in the seasons that follow.”

— Andy Stanley

313. “We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.”

— Andy Stanley

314. “Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

316. “Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.”

— Andy Stanley

317. “So what’s the deal with the desert? I don’t know. But I do know the time between catching a glimpse of what God wants to do through us and the time when we are led to move out often feels like a desert experience. 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

318. “Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.”

— Andy Stanley

319. “Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.”

— Andy Stanley

320. “We want time in with our kids not time out.”

— Andy Stanley

321. “Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Not for guilt’s sake, but for the sake of being good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.”

— Andy Stanley

322. “Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.”

— Andy Stanley

323. “But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.”

— Andy Stanley

324. “On day one, the Church wasn’t for church people because there weren’t any church people.”

— Andy Stanley

325. “Why? Why did God provide me with more than I need?”

— Andy Stanley

326. “Don’t be fair, be engaged.”

— Andy Stanley

327. “Preacher’s kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.”

— Andy Stanley

328. “The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn’t love a lot.”

— Andy Stanley

329. “Believe what you want But don’t dumb down what Jesus said.”

— Andy Stanley

330. “Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

332. “We always have more ideas than we can fund.”

— Andy Stanley

333. “Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.”

— Andy Stanley

334. “Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.”

— Andy Stanley

335. “That would hurt the one I love the most.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

337. “The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden.”

— Andy Stanley

338. “No one ever has the resources they need.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

341. “What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?”

— Andy Stanley

342. “Tim Keller writes, “When the church as a whole is no longer seen as speaking to questions that transcend politics, and when it is no longer united by a common faith that transcends politics, then the world sees strong evidence that Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx were right, that religion is really just a cover for people wanting to get their way in the world.”13.”

— Andy Stanley

343. “Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

345. “One gets to the place one wants to be the same way one got to the place one didn’t want to be – by putting one foot in front of the other and moving in a specific direction.”

— Andy Stanley

346. “The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces. In.”

— Andy Stanley

347. “If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.”

— Andy Stanley

348. “If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.”

— Andy Stanley

349. “What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.”

— Andy Stanley

350. “There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.”

— Andy Stanley