Andy Stanley Quotes

It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

Enjoy your relationship with your boyfriend and don't worry about the people or situations you dream about. Once you wake up, they're over; let them go.

I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a job that I take very seriously.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.

Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.