Bill Hybels Quotes - Page 5

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

Humility enables us to learn from each other.

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.

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

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.

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

People join organizations, they leave managers.

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

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

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

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.

If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.

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.

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

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

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

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

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.

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

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

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

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

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

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