Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
BILL HYBELSIf you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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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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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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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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Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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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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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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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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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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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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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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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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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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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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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Build something with enduring value.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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