Visioneering Quotes

“Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Prayer keeps the burden fresh. It keeps our eyes and hearts in an expectant mode.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“If you are “seeking first” his kingdom where you are, then where you are is where he has positioned you.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Pay the price. Embrace the vision. After all, everybody ends up somewhere in life. You have the opportunity to end up somewhere on purpose.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Personal Vision

“So what’s the deal with the desert? I don’t know. But I do know the time between catching a glimpse of what God wants to do through us and the time when we are led to move out often feels like a desert experience. The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Our tendency is to pray for miracles. But in most situations, it is more appropriate to pray for opportunities. More than likely you need an opportunity rather than something”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“What kind of vision are you casting for the people around you? Dad, what kind of vision are you casting for your children? Mom, what kind of vision are you casting for your husband? Grandparent, what about those grandkids? Leader, what kind of personal visions are you casting for the people who have invested their time and talents in your vision?”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Think about this for a moment. What would happen if you were to begin speaking to people’s potential rather than their performance? What if you made it a habit to dispense the same type of grace to others as has been poured out on you? What would happen if you intentionally laced your conversations with notions of what could be true of the people around you?”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“So be encouraged. The agony you are experiencing is normal. The loneliness you feel is to be expected. The sleepless nights when you stare up at the ceiling and think, “What have I gotten myself into?” are part of the process. All of those experiences will ultimately lead you to the conclusion, “God, if you don’t come through, I’m sunk!” And that is exactly where he wants you to be—and stay. For this reason, men and women of vision are men and women of faith. And through their faith, God is honored.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Pursuing a vision requires faith. Pursuing a great vision requires great faith. Pursuing a vision will test, stretch, and at times exhaust your faith. And while you are pulling your hair out down here, God revels in the glory he receives.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Prayer keeps the burden fresh. It keeps our eyes and hearts in an expectant mode. Prayer doesn’t force God’s hand. But it keeps us on the lookout for his intervention. Prayer sensitizes us to subtle changes in the landscape of our circumstances”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Visioneering is the course one follows to make dreams a reality. It is the process whereby ideas and convictions take on substance.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“If God has birthed a vision in you, he is in the process of developing a similar vision in the hearts of others around you.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you. Certainly there are significant and enjoyable mile markers along the way. But success is not the mile marker. Success is not the raise, promotion, recognition, Christian home, or wonderful children. Those are simply enjoyable mile markers along the way. Success is staying faithful to the process that contributed to those things becoming a reality. Unfortunately, we often don’t consider ourselves successful until we experience the rewards.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“I have the privilege of knowing Ron Blue. Besides being a highly accomplished writer and speaker, Ron founded a financial estate and investment counseling firm to serve clients throughout the United States and Europe. Ron began this firm with a unique vision. In his commitment to mentor clients in principles of good stewardship as well as sound financial planning, Ron envisioned a day when those clients could collectively give a billion dollars a year to kingdom work. Now that’s a vision clearly tied in with what God is up to in history! His”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“prayer takes us well beyond human possibilities.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Our tendency is to pray for miracles. But in most situations, it is more appropriate to pray for opportunities.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Vision always precedes preparation. Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“It is amazing what can be accomplished when we wait on God to lead us out. It is equally amazing the mess we can make of things when we charge out on our own.”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. LARRY CRABB Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. GOETHE”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people. CHINESE PROVERB”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

“VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION”
― Andy Stanley, Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision