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.
BILL HYBELSYour culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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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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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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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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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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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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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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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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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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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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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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Build something with enduring value.
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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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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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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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