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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Bill Hybels

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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Ideas Long People Underestimate
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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Believe Leader Wise
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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Play Soar Spectators
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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Crowns Easter Jesus
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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Growth Request Timing
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Difficult Lead Most Persons
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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Focus Moving Prayer Sufficient
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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Affection Focus Mind
Prayerless 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.
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Cutting Numbers People
Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Healthy Leader Senior
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Feel Given People
The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Best Gift Giving Introduction
It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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Another One Thing Vision
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Desperation Discipline Learned Prayer
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
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.
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Battle Fighting Home Running
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
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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Leader Moving Stuff
Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Each Other Enables Humility
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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Christian Compassion Life Short
Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Cooperation Moments Mysterious
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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Pursue Safe Vision
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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Christian Day Each God Plan
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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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming

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