Bill Hybels Quotes

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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Bill Hybels
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

Bill Hybels
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.

Bill Hybels
If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.

Bill Hybels
We don't take confession seriously enough. If we did, our lives would be radically different.

Bill Hybels
Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.'

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If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.

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How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? "Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich."

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Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.

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People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.

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Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow spiritually?

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Are you expecting God to fill your needs? Are you asking him to do so - regularly, earnestly and persistently?

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Confession is probably the most neglected area of personal prayer.

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Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.

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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

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Adoration in prayer reminds us of God's identity and inclination. As we list his attributes, lifting up his character and personality, we reinforce our understanding of who he is.

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When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.

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Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

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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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Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.

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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

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The greatest prayer motivator in existence is answered prayer.

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God 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.

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

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We can have no deep, ongoing fellowship with God unless we obey him - totally.

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God is committed to developing a people who will reflect his character in this world, and his character always expresses concern and compassion for the afflicted.

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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.

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

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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

Bill Hybels