You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
BILL HYBELSI 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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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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For 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.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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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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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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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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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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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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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
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