God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
BILL HYBELSIf I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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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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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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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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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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If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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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.
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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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