Andy Stanley Quotes

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

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

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

To know and experience what God can do, we must first realize and acknowledge what we cannot do. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and our limited ability, and totally onto Him and His infinite power.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.