519 Quotes by Andy Stanley

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

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

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.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.

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.

Are you the person the person you’re looking for is looking for?

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.

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.

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.