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 HYBELSWhen you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
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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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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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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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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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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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