This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
BILL HYBELSEffective 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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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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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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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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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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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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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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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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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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