This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
BILL HYBELSWhenever 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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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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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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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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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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Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
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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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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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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.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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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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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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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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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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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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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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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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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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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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