Andy Stanley Quotes

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

It was an act of both conscience and cowardice.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

The battle between free will and listening to the inner voice will remain eternal. Similarly, in the debate over material and spiritual rewards; you cannot have both, as the path to acquire each is different.

It's a lot easier knowing you can't do something than knowing you shouldn't.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?

What would the Living One have me do?

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.