Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
BILL HYBELSPersonally, 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!
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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