Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
BILL HYBELSIf you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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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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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.
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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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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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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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The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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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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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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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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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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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we’re going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we’re going to do this together.
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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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