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If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Leader
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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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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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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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.
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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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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
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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.
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Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.
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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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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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It's one thing to see a vision it's another thing to be seized by a vision.
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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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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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Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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