Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
BILL HYBELSI’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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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.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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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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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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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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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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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.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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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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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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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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If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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