If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
BILL HYBELSFor 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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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’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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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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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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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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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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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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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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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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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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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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I’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.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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