God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
BILL HYBELSThere isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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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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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Build something with enduring value.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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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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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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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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If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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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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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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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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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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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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