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.
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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It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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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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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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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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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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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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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
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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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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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