Andy Stanley Quotes

When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

O kings, exercise your power then boldly, for it is divine and salutary for human kind, but exercise it with humility. You are endowed with it from without. At bottom it leaves you feeble, it leaves you mortal, it leaves you sinners, and charges you before God with a very heavy account.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

One and God make a majority.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.