Andy Stanley Quotes

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

If we can develop the character and work with God, then let him develop the character of Christ in us, we're going to become the best possible husband, the best possible wife.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

It's pretty easy for me to say that the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by my relationship with family. And football's later on down the line.

When I was ordained as a pastor, I walked away from secular music for seven, eight years. It took me that time to learn that God is love.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to do.

I'm a daddy first; I'm a husband, and I'm a lover of God and people.

I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.

My relationship with God and my parents, that's what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.