He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
BILL HYBELSHe [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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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.
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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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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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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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.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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