Hybels Quotes

#1. The leader is the organization's top strategist ... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Bill Hybels

#2. 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.

Bill Hybels

#3. If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Bill Hybels

#4. Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

Bill Hybels

#5. 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.

Bill Hybels

#6. People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

Bill Hybels

#7. 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.

Bill Hybels

#8. 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.

Bill Hybels

#9. Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#11. The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#13. A dangerous woman delves deeply into the truth of who she is, grounds herself daily in the healing and empowering love of God, and radically engages with the needs of the world.

Lynne Hybels

#14. Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#16. Leadership is not for the faint of heart

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#18. 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 follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

Bill Hybels

#19. Whatever your quitting point, I challenge you to test God's truth and faithfulness by saying, God, I'm going to proceed, trusting you to empower me to crash through this quitting point and come out in one piece on the other side.

Bill Hybels

#20. 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.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#26. 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.

Bill Hybels

#27. 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 the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

Bill Hybels

#28. God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

Bill Hybels

#29. Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

Bill Hybels

#30. 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.

Bill Hybels

#31. 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.

Bill Hybels

#32. 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!

Bill Hybels

#33. Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

Bill Hybels

#34. Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people
like God loves them

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#36. Our conduct will never change God's character.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#40. 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.

Bill Hybels

#41. 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.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#44. 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.

Bill Hybels

#45. You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Bill Hybels

#46. 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.

Bill Hybels

#47. Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#49. We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#52. 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.

Bill Hybels

#53. 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!

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#59. Build something with enduring value.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#62. 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.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#64. 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.

Bill Hybels

#65. God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

Bill Hybels

#66. People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#68. 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.

Bill Hybels

#69. 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.

Bill Hybels

#70. You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#72. Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#74. 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.

Bill Hybels

#75. Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Bill Hybels

#76. The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#78. Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

Bill Hybels

#79. 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?

Bill Hybels

#80. 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.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#83. 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.

Bill Hybels

#84. 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.

Bill Hybels

#85. 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.

Bill Hybels

#86. 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.

Bill Hybels

#87. 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

#88. 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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

#90. You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

Bill Hybels

#91. 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.

Bill Hybels

#92. 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 .

Bill Hybels

#93. Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Bill Hybels

#94. The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Bill Hybels

#95. You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.

Bill Hybels

#96. 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.

Bill Hybels

#97. 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.

Bill Hybels

#98. It's amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels