black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

Bill Hybels

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.
BILL HYBELS

Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years
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.
BILL HYBELS

Bible Leader Spiritual
Everyone wins when a leader gets better
BILL HYBELS

Better Leading Winning
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
BILL HYBELS

Believe Leader Wise
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
BILL HYBELS

Change Character God never
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.
BILL HYBELS

Battle Fighting Home Running
The real deal is always going to win in the end.
BILL HYBELS

Real Winning Ends
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
BILL HYBELS

Local Church Locals Nothing
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 HYBELS

Fall Knees Plain Prayer Writing
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
BILL HYBELS

Failure Helping Improving Leader
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.
BILL HYBELS

Hands Jesus Nails Pierced
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
BILL HYBELS

Christian Compassion Life Short
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
BILL HYBELS

Discipline Doe Heaven
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.
BILL HYBELS

Attention Escaped Motivation Undivided
Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
BILL HYBELS

Awareness Self
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.
BILL HYBELS

Input Leader Read Serious

it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Hybels Quotes