I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
BILL HYBELSThe leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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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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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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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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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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