One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
BILL HYBELSLive each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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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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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we’re going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we’re going to do this together.
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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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Build something with enduring value.
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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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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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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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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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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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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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