The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
BILL HYBELSReligion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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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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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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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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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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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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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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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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