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.
BILL HYBELSI 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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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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Build something with enduring value.
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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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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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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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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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It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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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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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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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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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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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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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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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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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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The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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