Andy Stanley Quotes

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Those who go along get along.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

If you want to get along, go along.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.

I just want to go wherever they want me at.

I always accept the decisions of the coach.

Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.