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.
BILL HYBELSSelf awareness allows you to self-correct.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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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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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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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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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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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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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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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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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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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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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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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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