I 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 HYBELSYou may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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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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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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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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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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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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