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.
BILL HYBELSYou can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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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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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.
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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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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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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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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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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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