Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
BILL HYBELSIf you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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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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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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