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.
BILL HYBELSNothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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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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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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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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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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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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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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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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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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