Andy Stanley Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

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  Jesus, People

• Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

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  God, Christian, Religious

• My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

• The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.40, Multnomah

• If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.

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  Christian, Jesus, Attitude

• If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

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  Christian, Jesus, Attention

• Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

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  Love, Christian, Jesus

• Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.

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  Jesus, Disciple

• Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.

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  Jesus, Couple, Eye

• Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Followers, Knows

• Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.

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  Jesus, Sides

• Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

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  Jesus, Believe, Dumb

• I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

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  Falling In Love, Jesus, People

• As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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  Jesus, Jobs, Integrity

• Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.

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  Jesus, Ministry, Way

• Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

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  Jesus, Doe, Following

• Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

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  Jesus, Realizing, Standards

• Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

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  Jesus, Grace, Balance

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.40, Zondervan

• Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

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  Jesus, Heart, Secret Places

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