People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
BILL HYBELSMost people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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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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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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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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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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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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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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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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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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