I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
BILL HYBELSThere is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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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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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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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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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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