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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.

Bill Hybels

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Healthy Leader Senior
It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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Another One Thing Vision
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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Cooperation Mysterious Nudge Prompting Simple
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.
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Fall Knees Plain Prayer Writing
If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
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Christianity Speak Today
It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
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Christian Done Forgiveness Gift Ourselves
It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Coincidence Praying
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Feel Given People
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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Pursue Safe Vision
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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Energy Giving Underestimate Vision
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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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Commitment Leader Needs
The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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Real Winning Ends
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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Believe Leader Wise
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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Focus Moving Prayer Sufficient
The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Motivated People Way
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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Appreciate Father Heaven
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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Behavior Humans Levels
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
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.
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Input Leader Read Serious
If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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Courageous Cry Leadership
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
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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Church Earth Indescribable Local Nothing
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.
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God Someone Something World
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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Affection Focus Mind

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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