Bill Hybels quotes - page 3

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right. (Bill Hybels)
One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self. View quote
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It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan. View quote
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I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things. View quote
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Self awareness allows you to self-correct. View quote
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best. View quote
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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. View quote
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them. View quote
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You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. (Bill Hybels)
Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end. View quote
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When you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?" View quote
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One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people. View quote
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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. View quote
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. View quote
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If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud. View quote
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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 . View quote
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Our conduct will never change God's character. View quote
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It's the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they're not quite telling each other the truth and they're not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them. View quote
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People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so. (Bill Hybels)
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve. View quote
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Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. 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. View quote
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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. 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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