Quotes from Andy Stanley

God uses broken-hearted leaders.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Courage is essential to leadership.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

Only do what only you can do.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

No one ever has the resources they need.

Resources follow vision.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

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

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

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.

The direction you are currently traveling—relationally, financially, spiritually, and the list goes on and on—will determine where you end up in each of those respective arenas.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

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.