Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
BILL HYBELSMost of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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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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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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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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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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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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