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.
Bill HybelsI 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 HybelsIf leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
Bill HybelsThe 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.
Bill HybelsThis is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!
Bill HybelsPersonally, 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 HybelsObeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
Bill HybelsChurch 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.
Bill HybelsYou cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
Bill HybelsWe will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.
Bill HybelsIf 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.
Bill HybelsThe local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
Bill HybelsWhatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
Bill HybelsMost 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 HybelsDignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill HybelsPlaying around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
Bill HybelsA leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
Bill HybelsI'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
Bill HybelsEvery single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
Bill HybelsAuthentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
Bill HybelsIf 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.
Bill HybelsIt’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 HybelsOne 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 HybelsHe [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
Bill HybelsI can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
Bill HybelsGod led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
Bill HybelsNothing 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.
Bill Hybels