Bill Hybels Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.

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

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.

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

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

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Build something with enduring value.

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

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

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.