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 HYBELSWhenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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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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You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!
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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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