This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
BILL HYBELSVisionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
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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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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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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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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 will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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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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Build something with enduring value.
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You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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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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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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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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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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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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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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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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