God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
BILL HYBELSPrayerless 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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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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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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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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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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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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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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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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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
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If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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