If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
BILL HYBELSWise 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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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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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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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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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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I 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.
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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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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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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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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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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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