And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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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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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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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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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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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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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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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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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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