Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
BILL HYBELSIf you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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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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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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It’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.
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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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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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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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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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