Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
BILL HYBELSTruly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
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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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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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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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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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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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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.
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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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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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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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