Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
BILL HYBELSLeaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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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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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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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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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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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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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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