If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
BILL HYBELSIt helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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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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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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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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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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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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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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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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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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If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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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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Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
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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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