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There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

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Andy Stanley
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 16
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
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Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
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What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
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Environments are the messages before the message.
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The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.
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[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.
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You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
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The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
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It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
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A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
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We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.
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As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.
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God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
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Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.
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Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.
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There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.
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Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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What God originates, God orchestrates.
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