Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
BILL HYBELSPeople will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
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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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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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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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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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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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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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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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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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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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.
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Build something with enduring value.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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