If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
BILL HYBELSThere’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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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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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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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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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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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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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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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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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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.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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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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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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