You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
BILL HYBELSMost 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Build something with enduring value.
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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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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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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 only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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