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• 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.

  Bill Hybels

  Ideas, Long, People

  Bill Hybels, Lynne Hybels (1993). “Fit to be Tied: Making Marriage Last a Lifetime”, p.39, Zondervan

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• If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

  Bill Hybels

  Children, Proud, Praying

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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!

  Bill Hybels

  Play, Soar, Spectators

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• Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

  Bill Hybels

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

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

  Bill Hybels

  People, Church, God Love

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

  Bill Hybels

  Demand, Fortitude, Ends

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• 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

  Jobs, Passion, Leader

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• I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.

  Bill Hybels

  Humble, Giving, Evil

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• Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Spiritual, Busy

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.124, SPCK

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• The local church is the hope of the world.

  Bill Hybels

  Church, World, Local Church

  Bill Hybels, Kevin & Sherry Harney (2009). “Colossians: Discover the New You”, p.15, Harper Collins

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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.

  Bill Hybels

  Vision, Safe, Pursue

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• Our conduct will never change God's character.

  Bill Hybels

  Character, Never Change, Change God

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

  Bill Hybels

  Team, Knitting, People

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• 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

  Focus, Mind, Affection

  Bill Hybels (1993). “Laws of the Heart”, Victor Books

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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.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Prayer, Attention

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

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• 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

  Hate, Real, Teaching

  "How do you sell God in the 21st century? More heaven, less hell" by Meghan O'Gieblyn, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2014.

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• 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.

  Bill Hybels

  Leadership, People, Creative

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.47, InterVarsity Press

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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.

  Bill Hybels

  People, Temptation, Groups

  Bill Hybels (2008). “Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs”, p.132, Zondervan

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• Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

  Bill Hybels

  Definitions, Great Leadership, Great Leader

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• Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

  Bill Hybels

  People, Goal, Coaching

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• The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christ’s witnesses all over this planet. It’s as if Christ said, “Think you’re missing the book smarts, the street smarts, the looks, the talent, or the speaking ability to accomplish this mission? Don’t be concerned with those things, because you have my mountain-moving, life-transforming, death-defying power on your side.”

  Bill Hybels

  Smart, Moving, Book

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• Everyone wins when a leader gets better

  Bill Hybels

  Winning, Leader, Get Better

  Twitter post from Aug 3, 2016

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• 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

  Simple, Nudge, Cooperation

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• 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

  Motivation, Attention, Undivided Attention

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

  Bill Hybels

  People, Giving, Leader

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