You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
BILL HYBELSHumility enables us to learn from each other.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
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And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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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.
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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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Build something with enduring value.
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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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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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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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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’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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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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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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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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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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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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