The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
BILL HYBELSIt’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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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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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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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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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I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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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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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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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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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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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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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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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
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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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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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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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