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1. "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
2. "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
3. "As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes." ~ Andy Stanley
4. "It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change." ~ Andy Stanley
5. "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
6. "Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision." ~ Andy Stanley
7. "A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles." ~ Andy Stanley
8. "As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable." ~ Andy Stanley
9. "Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged." ~ Andy Stanley
10. "God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning." ~ Andy Stanley
11. "Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership." ~ Andy Stanley
12. "Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been." ~ Andy Stanley
13. "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
14. "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
15. "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
16. "[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan." ~ Andy Stanley
17. "...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience." ~ Andy Stanley
18. "Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments." ~ Andy Stanley
19. "Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?" ~ Andy Stanley
20. "We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there." ~ Andy Stanley
21. "..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise." ~ Andy Stanley
22. "Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately." ~ Andy Stanley
23. "Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue." ~ Andy Stanley
24. "Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away." ~ Andy Stanley
25. "People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up." ~ Andy Stanley
26. "Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds." ~ Andy Stanley
27. "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
28. "Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside." ~ Andy Stanley
29. "To ensure that we are leading with our feet firmly planted on the soil of what is, we must live by the seven commandments of current reality:Thou shalt not pretend.Though shalt not turn a blind eye.Thou shalt not exaggerate.Thou shalt not shoot the bearer of bad news.Thou shalt not hide behind the numbers.Thou shalt not ignore constructive criticism.Thou shalt not isolate thyself.Attempting to lead while turning a blind eye to reality is like treading water: It can only go on for so long, eventually you will sink. As a next generation leader, be willing to face the truth regardless of how painful it might be. And if you don't like what you see, change it." ~ Andy Stanley
30. "Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life." ~ Andy Stanley
31. "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
32. "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
33. "Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit." ~ Andy Stanley
34. "As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours." ~ Andy Stanley
35. "If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us." ~ Andy Stanley
36. "Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?" ~ Andy Stanley
37. "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
38. "Why? Why did God provide me with more than I need?" ~ Andy Stanley
39. "If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already." ~ Andy Stanley
40. "Simply recognizing the need for change does not define leadership. The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees…A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act on what he sees, to speak up when everyone else is silent." ~ Andy Stanley
41. "Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude." ~ Andy Stanley
42. "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
43. "According to Sports Illustrated, an amazing 78 percent of NFL players find themselves bankrupt or financially stressed within two years of retirement. And 60 percent of NBA players are broke within five years of walking off the court." ~ Andy Stanley
44. "So let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble onto the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there's not enough time to get everything done that you're convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done." ~ Andy Stanley
45. "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
46. "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
47. "As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious,the unconvinced, the sceptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God." ~ Andy Stanley
48. "That would hurt the one I love the most" ~ Andy Stanley
49. "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
50. "I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction." ~ Andy Stanley
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