God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
BILL HYBELSFor 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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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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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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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.
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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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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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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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