Bill Hybels Quotes

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• Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

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  Life Changing, Organization, Community

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• You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

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  Eye, Doe, Matter

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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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  Timing, Grows, Request

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.91, SPCK

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• Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

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  Jesus, Church, Christ

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• Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

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  Encouraging, Uplifting, Courage

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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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  Christian, Heart, Voice

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

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• The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

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  Hands, Leader, Church

  Twitter post from May 17, 2012

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• If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

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  Schedules, Don't Change, Persons

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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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  Cutting, Numbers, People

  Bill Hybels, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1994). “Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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• God made you on purpose, for a purpose

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  Purpose, Made

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• You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

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  Difficult, Persons

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• If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

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  Ears, World, Noise

  Bill Hybels (2010). “The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond”, p.11, Zondervan

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• The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

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  People, Way, Motivated

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• The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

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  Giving, Introduction, Best Gift

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• It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

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  Coincidence, Praying

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.18, SPCK

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• When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.

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  Country, Jesus, Life Changing

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• Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

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  Passion, Vision, Produce

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2010

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

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  Christian, Spiritual, Busy

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

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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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  Vision, One Thing

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• The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

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  Community, Spirit, Conflict

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• Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

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  Heaven, Each Day, Ears

  Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.82, Tyndale House

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• God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him... people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God's activities and programs in this world. These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we're going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we're going to do this together.

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  Men, Unique, People

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• God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

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  Risk, Pouring, Delight

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• A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

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  Leader, Energy, Assets

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• Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

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  Leader, World, Matter

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