Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
BILL HYBELSI 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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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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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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