Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!
BILL HYBELSLeaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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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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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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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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People 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.
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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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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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