Andy Stanley quotes

You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.
- Andy Stanley

Christ paid a debt he didn’t owe and one we couldn’t pay. That kind of love should motivate us to pay those debts we can pay to those we do owe.
- Andy Stanley

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.
- Andy Stanley

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
- Andy Stanley

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
- Andy Stanley

There is a direct correlation between a person’s private devotional life and his or her personal faith. And regardless of how long you’ve been in ministry, this is something you can’t afford to lose sight of. When God speaks to us personally through his Word or answers a specific prayer, our faith is strengthened.
- Andy Stanley

Ministry makes people’s faith bigger. If you want to increase someone’s confidence in God, put him in a ministry position before he feels fully equipped.
- Andy Stanley

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

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
- Andy Stanley

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.
- Andy Stanley

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
- Andy Stanley

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

No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.
- Andy Stanley

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.
- Andy Stanley

Our tendency is to pray for miracles. But in most situations, it is more appropriate to pray for opportunities. More than likely you need an opportunity rather than something.
- Andy Stanley

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

God sees your sin as a debt you can't pay. There is no point in asking you to. To think that being good will somehow makes you square with God would be like Allie promising to clean up her room after being confronted with the damage she did to my car. Cleaning up her room doesn't pay me back. It's a nice gesture, but it doesn't fix my car.
- Andy Stanley

The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards. Taken literally, this means that, for example, 80 percent of what you achieve in your job comes from 20 percent of the time spent. Thus for all practical purposes, four-fifths of the effort—a dominant part of it—is largely irrelevant.
- Andy Stanley

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
- Andy Stanley

If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
- Andy Stanley

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
- Andy Stanley

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.
- Andy Stanley

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.
- Andy Stanley

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
- Andy Stanley

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
- Andy Stanley

God uses broken-hearted leaders.
- Andy Stanley

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
- Andy Stanley

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
- Andy Stanley

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed – they died for what they claim to have seen.
- Andy Stanley

Rebellion never goes without consequences.
- Andy Stanley

Leaders are made one response at a time.
- Andy Stanley

Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
- Andy Stanley

If you don’t like the fruit that keeps cluttering up your backyard, the only real solution is to dig up the tree by the roots and eliminate the issue once and for all. If you deal with the source, you’ve dealt with the problem.
- Andy Stanley