If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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Whenever 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.
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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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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Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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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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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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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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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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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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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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I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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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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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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