Andy Stanley Quotes

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

Why do I manage myself? I don't trust anyone else to do it, to be honest.

I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.