I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
BILL HYBELSOur 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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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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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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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.
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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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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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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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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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