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Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

Bill Hybels

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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Levels Lord Noise
Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Church God Love People
You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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Better Increase Leadership
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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Delight Pouring Risk
This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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God Promise Solely Throttle
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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Leader Powerful Vision
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Day Each Ears Heaven
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Community Conflict Spirit
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Ears God Hear Noise World
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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Behavior Humans Levels
Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision
Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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Leader Light Our World

Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

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Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

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