The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
BILL HYBELSPrayerless 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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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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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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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.
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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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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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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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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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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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