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

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Bill Hybels
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
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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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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.
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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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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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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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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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People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
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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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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 not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.
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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 that keep me up at night.
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
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We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.
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The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
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