Bill Hybels Quotes

#1. You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

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#2. If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

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#3. If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

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#4. The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

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#5. 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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#6. Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

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#7. God made you on purpose, for a purpose

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#8. 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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#9. Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

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#10. It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

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#11. Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

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#12. God wants us ... to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

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#13. Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.

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#14. Build something with enduring value.

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#15. To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

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#16. Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

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#17. The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

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#18. If you're too chicken to repent, then please don't ever say Christianity is for weak people.

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#19. We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

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#20. This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

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#21. 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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#22. 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.

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#23. The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

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#24. God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

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#25. Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

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#31. A leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders

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#32. 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.

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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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.

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#36. 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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#37. It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

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#38. There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

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#39. When Christ- followers act from a place of godly character - when they keep the big picture in mind, when they put others' needs ahead of their own, when they order lives according to kingdom priorities - things change. Big things change.

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#40. The question isn't, "What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?" but, "Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?

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#41. Humility enables us to learn from each other.

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#42. Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

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#43. Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

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#44. Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

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#45. Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

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#46. Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment

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#47. One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

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#48. If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

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#49. Leadership is not for the faint of heart

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#50. Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

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#51. Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

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#52. Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

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#53. God in His grace will allow us a certain number of friendships that stick for the long haul of life. These friendships are a treasured blessing.

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#54. 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 leader.

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#55. If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

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#56. Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created.

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#57. Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

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#58. he said we would not have to do this alone.

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#59. When you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?"

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#60. Leaders should never apologize for the strength of feeling that accompanies their God-given visions. God designed leaders to experience their longing, their desire, and their drive deeply, and to express it fully. And when they do, they energize others.

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#61. 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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#62. The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

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#63. Leaders are at their very best when they are raising up leaders around them.

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#64. Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

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#65. 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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#66. I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

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#67. Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

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#68. Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

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#69. The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

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#70. Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop ... is beyond me!

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#71. 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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#72. Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

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#73. 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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#74. You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

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#75. 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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#76. Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

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#77. My selection process is based on "three Cs": first character, then competence, and finally chemistry with me and with the rest of the team. Character. Competence. Chemistry.

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#78. People join organizations, they leave managers.

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#79. Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

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#80. Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

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#81. Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

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#82. The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.

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#83. Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

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#84. 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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#85. I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

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#86. Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

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#87. If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

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#88. Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

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#89. Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

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#90. Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

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#91. Deep friendships are forged in the fire of pain. If

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#92. 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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#93. If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

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#94. Everyone wins when a leader gets better

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#95. Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

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#96. The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

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#97. Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

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#98. We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

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#99. It's time to make a decision: I will learn what disciplines are necessary to fuel my prayer life, and I will practice these disciplines regularly, without fail.

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#100. 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.

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