Andy Stanley Quotes

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

If someone gives you support, and there are no conditions attached, why shouldn't I accept it?

I believe that God has blessed me in immeasurable ways so that I can, in return, bless and help others.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

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

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.

Trying to give back a little bit is important.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.