Bill Hybels Quotes

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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…
• Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
• It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan
• 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…
• Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
• The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
• Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
• 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.
• More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if…
• Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
• 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…
• If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you…
• I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
• 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.
• The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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